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That specimen has also on the sides of the abdomen, on both sides 

 of the central field, several very distinct, oblique, parallel, black 

 lines, and seems to me fully to agree with the description of Ar. 

 virgatus (Clerck). — E. sollers has not hitherto been met with in 

 Upland, where Clerck collected all the species he has described. 



(Pag. 26.) 2. E. diademata [ = Epeira tliademata (Clerck) 1757.] 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus diadematus Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 25, PI. 1, tab. 4. 



1757. „ peleg id., ibid., p. 27, PI. 1, tab. 5. 



1758. Aranea diadema Linn. , Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, I, p. 619. 

 1763. „ linn^i Scop., Ent. Cam., p. 392. 



1778. „ cruciger De Geer, Mem., VII, p. 218, PI. 11, fig. 3-8. 



1802. „ MYAGRIA Walck., Faune Par., II, p. 192. 



1805. Epeira diadema id., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 58. 



1805. ,, MYAGRIA id., ibid., p. 59. 



1836. „ stellata C. Koch, in Herr.-Sch^ff. , Deutschl. Ins., 134, 7. 



1856. ,, diademata Thor. , Eec. crit. Aran., p. 18. 



1864. „ diadema Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 358, PI. XXVI, 

 fig. 258. 



1866. „ diademata Menge, Preuss. Spinn., p. 42, PI. 1, tab. 1. 



The oldest specific name of this spider, diademata, I have in my 

 Eec. crit. restored. E. stellata C. Koch most assuredly belongs to 

 the same species. I captured a specimen agreeing in size and form 

 with E. stellata, but in no wise specifically differing from E. diade- 

 mata, at S:t Moritz in Ober Engaddin in Switzerland, about 6200 feet 

 above the level of the sea. — Prof. Th. Fries has brought home a 

 specimen of E. diademata from Mageroe (in the Norwegian Finn- 

 mark), which he kindly gave me; so that the species is distributed 

 over the whole of Europe, from the south of Italy 1 ) to North-Cape. 

 It is also met with in Iceland 2 ). According to Gay 3 ) it is even 

 found in Chili. 



To this species must be aggregated the spider called by Watt 4 ) 

 Ar. obtextrix, "the gossamer spider," it being according to him the 

 young of "A. geometrical or "horticcla," by which he doubtless means 



1) Canestrini and Pavesi, Araneidi Italiani (Atti della Societa Italiana di 

 Scienze Naturali, XI, Fasc. Ill, p. 56). 



2) See Olafssen, Eeise igiennem Island, p. 608. 



3) Hist. fis. e pol. de Chile, Zool., HI, p. 489. 



4) Obs. on the Ar. geometrica etc., (Memoirs of the Werner. Nat. Hist. So- 

 ciety, Vol. VI, p. 365—376). — The genus Epeira does not however seem to be 

 among those, the species of which contribute much to the formation of r the 

 gossamer." 



