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1841. Theridium aphane Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 330. 

 1845. Ero atomaria C. Koch, Die Arachn., XII, p. 106, Taf. CCCCXX, 



fig. 1033. 



1866. ,, tuberculata Menge, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 149, PI. 28, tab. 62. 



This species certainly does not belong to the Fauna of Sweden. 

 DeGeer, who was the first to describe it, had not taken the speci- 

 men he speaks of in Sweden, but at Utrecht in Holland (vid. De Geer, 

 loc. cit.). He says indeed that he subsequently in Sweden found 

 cocoons similar to those of A. tuberculata, and that the young that 

 came out of them appeared to him to belong to the same species as 

 A. tuberculata; it is however very probable that these cocoons be- 

 longed to Ero thoracica, which is common in this country, whereas 

 E. tuberculata has certainly never since De Geer's time been found here. 



Of his Ero atomaria C. Koch himself says that "it can scarcely 

 be considered as anything else than a variety of E. tuberculata" 

 (Die Arachn., XII, p. 107). Ohlert's E. atomaria (Aran. d. Prov. 

 Preuss., p. 81), which has only two protuberances on the abdomen, 

 must on the other hand be the same as E. thoracica. — The only 

 specimen I possess of E. tuberculata (a male, which I captured at 

 Kissingen in Bavaria, where I also met with E. thoracica) has four 

 very distinct protuberances , of which the anterior are the larger and 

 are considerably stronger than the corresponding protuberances in 

 E. thoracica, precisely as they appear in Koch's figure of E. tuber- 

 culata, Die Arachn., XII, Taf. CCCCXX, fig. 1034. 



(Pag. 151.) V. THERIDIUM [= Phyllonethis Thor. 1869 + Nesti- 

 cits Thor. 1869 + Theridium (Walck.) 1805 + Stea- 

 toda (Sund.) 1833 + Lit/typitantes Thor. 1869 + Asa- 

 gena Sund. 1833 + Euryopis (Menge) 1868J. 



On these genera vid. Thor., On Eur. Spiel. , pp 88 — 97. 



(Pag. 153.) 1. Th. lineatum [= Phyllonethis lineala (Clerck) 1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus OVATUS Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 58, PI. 3, tab. 8. 



1757. ,, reddiitus id., ibid., p. 59, PI. 3, tab. 9. 



1757. ,, lineatus id., ibid., p. 60, PI. 3, tab. 10. 



1758. Aranea reddiita Linn.. Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, I, p. 621. 

 ?1777. „ jiyopa Fabr., Gen. Insect., p. 249. 



1778. ,, C0R0NATA De Geer, Mem., YD, p. 242, PI. XIV, figg. 4—12. 



