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In the male of this species the clypeus is double as high as 

 the area of the 4 central eyes is long, at least double as high as the 

 length of the very small mandibles; the clava of the palpus is (as 

 in the preceding species) very large and thick, as long as the two 

 first joints of the palpus together: the pars tibialis is small, almost 

 bowl-forrned, the large pars tarsalis with the bulbus ovate, obliquely 

 truncated at the tip and there armed with two strong curved teeth, 

 one at the inner edge, the other, somewhat smaller, more towards the 

 outer side. — A ? specimen of this in Sweden rare species has been 

 captured in Ostergotland by Mr. Hj. Stolpe. Prof. Grube has had the 

 great kindness to send me the typical specimen of his Theridium 

 multimaculatum for examination. — Th. flavomaculatum Lucas ') is 

 an entirely different spider. 



On the genus Euryopis (Menge), see Thorell, On European 

 Spiders, p. 96. 



(Pag. 193.) VI. EPISINUS [= Episinns Walck. 1809]. 

 Vid. Thor., On Eur. Spirt., p. 79. 



(Pag. 194.) 1, E. truncatus [= Episinus truncates Walck. 1809]. 



Syn.: 1809. Episinus truncatus Walck., in Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., IV, p. 371. 

 1836. Theridium angulatum Blackw., Charact. of some undescr. spec, of 



Aran., in Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., 3 Ser., 

 VI1T, p. 483. 



?184.. Episinus algiricus Lucas, Explor. de l'Alger* Arachn., p. 269, 



PI. 17, fig. 11. 



1864. Theridium ANGULATUM Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 202, PI. 



XV, fig. 133. 



Blackwall's description of Th. angulatum so accurately suits 

 my specimens of Walckenaer's , C. Koch's and Westring's Episinus 

 truncatus, that I cannot entertain a doubt of the identity of these 

 species. E. algiricus Luc. (1847 ?) also appears to me synonymous 

 with E. tnmeatus , as Walckenaer supposes. — Of this in our coun- 

 try rare species my wife met with a fully developed female specimen 

 at Stromstad in Bohuslan; a fullgrown cT I have myself captured 

 at Kissingen in Bavaria. 



1) Explor. de l'Algerie, Arachn., p. 257. 



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