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1831. Epeira sturmu Hahn, Die Arachn., I, p. 12. 



1837. Atea ,, C. Koch, Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 1, p. 3. 



1845. „ AGALENA id., Die Arachn., XI, p. 137, Taf. CCCXCI, figg. 



936 — 938. 



1864. Epeiea „ Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., IT, p. 334, PI. XXIV, 



fig. 242. 



1866. „ „ Menge, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 65, PI. 10, tab. 12. 



Ar. x-notatus Clerck, quoted by Walckenaer (Ins. Apt., II, 

 p. 36) under the head of his E. agalena, is = his E. ealophylla (vid. 

 inf.: Zilla x-notata Westr.). Neither is C. Koch's Zilla albimacula 

 synonymous with E. agalena, but undoubtedly with E. diodia Walck. 



(Pag. 55.) 19. E. ceropegia [= Epeira ceropegia Walck. 1802]. 



Syn.: 1802. Aranea ceropegia Walck., Faun. Par., II, p. 199. 

 1805. Epeira „ id., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 60. 



1864. „ „ Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., IT, p. 347, PI. XXV, 



fig. 250. 



1866. ,, „ Menge, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 72, PI. 11, tab. 17. 



The species that Westring, Blackwall and Menge describe as 

 E. ceropegia, and which is undoubtedly the right E. ceropegia Walck., 

 is quite different from E. ceropegia C. Koch ') or E. sclopetaria Hahn 2 ), 

 which last Walckenaer has erroneously taken up among the synonyms 

 of his E. adianta 3 ). Of E. ceropegia Walck. et Westr., I possess only 

 an undeveloped female, 4 mm - long, which Westring himself gave 

 me. When full-grown it is according to Walckenaer 4 ) only "2 % 

 lignes," i. e. less than 6 mm -, according to Blackwall and Menge a little 

 larger: cf being according to the former " 3 / 10 inch" or about 7 '/ 2 mm -, 9 

 according to the latter 9 mm -. E. ceropegia C. Koch on the contrary 

 is far larger, and according to Hahn attains a length of 7 lines 

 (about 16 mm ). I have myself specimens, which I have received from 

 Dr Kedtenbacher, one of which is above 15 mm - long (the cepha- 

 lothorax 6 mm , the legs of the 1 st pair 21— 22 mm ). The form of the 

 abdomen is moreover entirely different, being drawn out in front 

 into a very short, blunt process; viewed from the side it is obliquely 

 cut off at the extremity, so that the spinners be pretty far in front 

 of and below the projecting, rounded apex of the abdomen (Conf. 



1) Herr.-Scileff. , Deutschl. Ins., 126, 12, 13; — Die Arachn., V, p. 51, fig. 370. 



2) Die Arachn., II, p. 46, fig. 131. 



3) H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 53. 



4) Loc. cit., p. 51. 



