other difference than that, whereas the corpus vulvae in this last 

 species, seen from the side, is curved backwards at the apex, it is in 

 E. a/finis or austriaca almost straight. Dr Redtenbacher has given 

 me a specimen of this latter species from the Austrian "Vor-Alpen." 

 Doleschall thinks it may possibly be a variety ot E. pulckra C. Koch 

 or E. comuta Dolesch., with which I am unaquainted; but this seems 

 to me but little probable. 



Not only has Doleschall (Syst. Verzeichn., p. 15), but also 

 Bockh (Spinn. d. Umgeb. Presburgs, in Verhandl. d. Vereins f. Na- 

 turkunde z. Presburg, II (1857), 2, p. 82) registered E. comuta 

 Walck. as synonymous with E. pidchra C. Koch (Die Arachn., XI, p. 

 100, f. 908), an opinion in which I cannot by any means participate. 



Simon (Hist. Nat. d. Araignees, p. 494), as well as C. Koch 

 and Blackwall, considers the South-European E. comuta Walck. as 

 identical with Cleeck's, Linne's and De Geer's northern Ar. angidata. 

 Walckenaer's E. angidata he unites with C. Koch's E. regia, in 

 which he seems to be at least partially right, but instead of calling 

 the species E. regia, he gives it the name of "E. comuta E. Sim.," 

 thereby still farther increasing the synonymistic confusion that pre- 

 vails among these species. The specific name comuta belongs of 

 course to that species of the genus Epeira, which was first described 

 by that name, yjz. E. comuta (Clerck). 



Concerning E. Schreibersii Hahn (= E. comuta Walck., E.pec- 

 toralis C. Koch, E. spinivulva Dufotjr) see also Thor., Rec. crit. , 

 p. 14; with regard to E. regia C. Koch (probably = E. Gistlii id.), 

 see ibid., p. 17. 



As to A. vir gains Clerck, vid. Rec crit., p. 21. Menge (Preus- 

 sische Spinnen , p. 48) doubts whether A. virgatus ought to be con- 

 sidered as synonymous with E. angidata, and thinks it more pro- 

 bably the same as E. sollers Walck., because Clerck mentions black 

 transversal lines on the abdomen, which Menge looks upon as a di- 

 stinguishing mark of E. sollers. But in the first place it is distinctly 

 Stated of A. virgatus, that its abdomen has '''duo anguli conspicui" 

 (Swedish: "tvanne starka horn," two strong angular protuberances) 

 which cannot possibly be said of E. sollers; and as for the black 

 transversal lines, they are certainly to be found in several varieties 

 of E. angidata, as also of E. diademata and others. We would also 

 call attention to the following expressions in the more detailed de- 

 scription of the abdomen's colour in A. virgatus: "Angidos interlabitur 

 crassior nigriorque linea, albo punctulo in medio notata" Just such a 

 variety (a jun.) of E. angulata I have described in Rec. crit., p. 13. 



