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Koch's figure in Die Arachn., loc. cit.). The scapus of the vulva is 

 rather long, though not so long as in E. diademata, thick, soft, 

 closely and transversally striped, yellowish, turned down towards the 

 end at an obtuse angle , and there tapering to a fine conical point. (In 

 E. ceropegia Walck., according to Menge, it is short and conical). Both 

 the thighs and the tibiae are armed with several strong spines; the 

 tibiae and metatarsi have a dark ring in the middle and at the end. 

 In two fullgrown female specimens (from Dalmatia), the first of the 

 two anterior triangular divisions of the yellowish leaf-like design 

 along the back of the abdomen appears somewhat broader than the 

 second : in an incompletely developed but almost equally large female 

 from Steyermark the second is broader than the first, as is also the 

 case in E. ceropegia Walck. and in E. adianta. The belly has , like that 

 of E. ceropegia Walck. , a longitudinal yellow central mark and 4 or 6 

 little yellow spots round the spinners. E. ceropegia C. Koch is very 

 like E. Armida Sav. et Aud. ') , but the scapus vulvae of this latter seems 

 to be considerably longer 2 ): the lateral bands of the abdomen are 

 also much more sharply and deeply indented in E. Armida 3 ) than 

 in E. ceropegia C. Koch, which we for the present consider as a sepa- 

 rate species, and call E. Victoria. 



In the immature female of E. ceropegia Walck. the lateral 

 eyes are, as Westring has remarked, scarcely farther removed from 

 the central eyes than these latter from each other. But in fullgrown 

 specimens, according to Menge's figures, as also in E. adianta, E. 

 Victoria and others, the distance between the lateral and central eyes 

 is considerably greater than the interval between these last. 



I suppose the name ceropegia is formed of xygog, wax, and 

 7Tijyvvi.it, fix (or nr]y6g, white?), on account of the wax-yellow design 

 of the abdomen, not of xigac, horn, and ttfyvvfii, as Menge believes. 



(Pag. 56.) II. SINGA [= Situja (C. Koch) 1836 + Cercidia Thob. 

 1869]. 



See on these genera: Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 58. 



1) Descr. de l'Egypte (2 Ed.:) XXII, p. 337, PI. II, fig. 8. 



2) Loc. cit., fig. 8, m. 



3) Loc. cit., fig. 8, 2. 



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