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Westbing's description fully coincides with the specimens in 

 ray collection of E. dromedaria from France and Germany, and which 

 Westbing has recognized as identical with his E. dromedaria. — 

 The male, in which the tibiae of the second pair are somewhat 

 thickened, with two rows of spines on the anterior side (six stron- 

 ger spines in the one row, and 4 smaller in the other) , has a rather 

 strong curved tooth or thorn at the extremity, below, of the coxae 

 of the 1 st pair of legs. The thighs are, with exception of those of 

 the 1 st pair, armed with a row of spines on the underside. The 

 bulbus genitalis has an appendage pretty much like that mentioned 

 in the preceding species, E. omceda or E. bicomis Weste. , but this 

 apophysis is much shorter and thicker than in E. omceda. As in 

 this last, the basal spine on the underside of the thighs of the 

 4 th pair is situated on a small high tubercle. Both sexes are easily 

 distinguished both from E. omceda and from E. bicomis Blackw. 

 by the area of the 4 central eyes being in E. dromedaria very 

 sloping; in the former two species this area is exactly quadrate or 

 even slightly broader behind, wheras in E. dromedaria it is in ge- 

 neral somewhat broader in front, at least in the males, the distance 

 between the anterior central eyes being a little greater than between 

 the posterior. 



E. bituberculata Walck. (Ins. Apt., II, p. 125) seems hardly 

 to be specifically distinct from E. dromedaria. — C. Koch (Die 

 Arachn., XI, p. 98) erroneously cites, "Cleeck, Ar. Suec. , PI. I, tab. 

 1, fig. 1", which figure does not belong to this species, but to E. 

 angulata (Cleeck). — Concerning E. bicornis Menge, see preceding 

 species, E. bicornis Weste. 



(Pag. 49.) 15. E. Westringii [= Epeira Westringii Thoe. 1856]. 



Syn.: 1856. Epeira Westeingh Thor. , Eec. crit. Aran., p. 106. 



The male of E. Westringii is very similar to that of E. cucur- 

 bitina, but is easily distinguished by his not having the dark late- 

 ral bands on the cephalothorax , which the latter has. — This beauti- 

 ful species, which is not registred as met with either in Germany, 

 France or England, has been found by v. Noedmann on the southern 

 coast of Crimea, among the prickles of Pinus taurica '). 



1) v. Noedmann, Erstes Verzeichn. etc., p. 11. 



