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is on the same side deeply and broadly excavated; in the first-named 

 two species the belly exhibits two small tubercles immediately behind 

 the vulva, which are absent in E. Schreibersii and E. grossa. In 

 E. anguluta the sides of the pars cephalica of the cephalothorax are 

 perfectly parallel, in the other just mentioned species the pars ce- 

 phalica is gradually a little narrowed in front. — The female of E. 

 Nordmanni we have already (pag. 4) discussed. 



The male of E. angulata has a shorter, obtuse, somewhat curv- 

 ed tooth on the underside of the coxa of the 1 st pair of legs, near 

 its extremity, outwards, and a stronger, conical, pointed thorn towards 

 the base , behind , of the coxse of the 2 n 1 pair (not , as Menge loc. 

 cit., p. 49, says, two thorns at the base of the coxse of the second 

 pair). E. Nordmanni c? has also an obtuse, somewhat crooked tooth 

 on the underside of the coxa of the first pair, towards its extremity, 

 and a very small, scarcely perceptible tooth under the coxa of the second 

 pair; the incrassated tibiae of 2 nd pair of legs are in this species thicker 

 in the middle, whereas they in E. angulata are of the same thickness 

 from the middle to the extremity. — The males of E. regia and 

 E. Schreibersii are unknown to me. The male of E. grossa has no 

 tooth under the coxse of the first pair, but a very strong, straight 

 thorn under the base of the coxse of the second pair, and also a 

 crooked thorn at the extremity, inwards, of the tibiae of the 2 nd 

 pair, which are thickened and of uniform substance from the middle 

 to the extremity. Specimens (cf and ?) of this latter species from 

 Hungary (Mehadia) and Syrmia, I have received through the kindness 

 of Dr. Eedtenbacher of Vienna , who has also given me two specimens 

 of E. regia (from Mehadia), which perfectly agree with those de- 

 scribed by me, and which I captured in Italy, together with E. 

 Schreibersii (vid. Rec. crit., p. 17). 



Epeira affinis Dolesch. (Syst. Verz., p. 29 ')) — or E. austriaca, 

 as I propose to call it, the name affinis having been already appro- 

 priated by Nicolet to another species of Epeira, from Chili 2 ) — is 

 extremely like E. Schreibersii, and is perhaps only a Cisalpine variety 

 of that species. Yet the humeral processes on its abdomen are consi- 

 derably smaller than those of E. Schreibersii: in the vulva I see no 



1) Systematische Verzeicliniss der im Kaiserthum (Esterreich vorkommenden 

 Spinnen (Sitzungsberichte d. Mathem.-Natunvissenschaftl. Classe d. Kais. Akad. 

 d. Wissensch. zu Wien, Bd IX). 



2) Vid. Gat, Historia politica e fisica de Chile, Zool., HI, p. 490. — Yet 

 another species with the same name is E. affinis Blackw. (Notice of Spid. cap- 

 tured by Potter in Canada, in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., XVIH, p. 77). 



