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The name E. solers is already met with in Walckenaer's Tabl. 

 d. Arane"ides, p. 60, but without any description of the species in- 

 tended. In the Faune Franc., Arachn., loc cit., Walckenaer published 

 an easily recognizable figure (without description) of that spider under 

 the French name "Epcire adroite" which is used in Tabl. d. Aran, 

 as a French equivalent to the Latin E. solers. It was first in 1841, 

 in his H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, that he described the species under 

 this latter name. I however think it right to reckon priority from 

 the date of Faune Franc. , loc. cit. — E. sollers is numbered by Black- 

 wall ') among the spiders met with in the south-eastern part of central 

 Africa. — The orthography sollers appears preferable to that of solers. 



The name Aranea cratera Walck. has been used by Panzer loc. 

 cit. for a figure in Sch^ffer's Icones Ins. Katisb., evidently repre- 

 senting Ep. sollers. Walckenaer himself referred that figure to his 

 Epeira cratera, and it is therefore not improbable, that E. cratera 

 is identical with E. sollers, in which case the former name will have 

 right of priority in preference to the latter. Conf. also Walck. , Ins. 

 Apt., II, p. 41, where he says of E. sollers: "par sa forme, comme 

 par ses habitudes elle se rapproche de I' Epeira cratera." 



The names given by Hahn as synonyms, Ar. or Ep. agalena 

 Walck., and Ar. x-notatus Clerck, belong to totally different spe- 

 cies. The same may be said of Ar. sclopetarius Clerck, which C. 

 Koch cites under this species. Vid. sup., p. 15: E. sclopetaria 

 Westr. , as also E. agalena and Zilla x-notata id. farther on. 



(Pag. 44.) 13. E. Mcornis [= Epeira ommda H.]. 



Syn.: 1833. Epeira angulata Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1832, p. 234 (ad partem: "pulluli"). 

 1851. ,, BICORNIS Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 35. 

 1851. „ iilrichii id., ibid. 

 1856. „ bicornis Thor., Kec. crit., p. 9. 



In Rec. crit. Aran. (p. 9, note) I expressed a doubt, whether 

 the spider there defined by Westring and myself as E. bicornis Walck., 

 really were that species. The ground on which my doubt then rested 

 was the more considerable size of the Swedish form : cf ad. , and even 



1) List of Spid. captured in the south-east region of equat. Africa (in Ann. 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 3 Ser., XVII), p. 461. 



