113 



1864. Neriene apicata Blackw. , Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 269, PI. XVIII, 



fig. 183. 



18G7. Micryphantes gibbus OnL., Aran. d. Prov. Preuss., p. 54, 65. 

 1868. Phalops gibbicollis Mekge, Preuss. Spinn., II, PI. 43, tab. 119; 



III, p. 220. 



Blackwall's Neriene apicata is certainly identical with We- 

 string's E. gibbicollis: Cambridge, to whom I have sent specimens of E. 

 gibbicollis, informs me by letter that he is of the same opinion. Ohlert 

 has sent me this species under the name of Micryphantes gibbus Ohl., 

 which species Menge first (Preuss. Spinn., II, p. 186) erroneously 

 referred to his Tmeticus foveolatus, but afterwards correctly (ibid. 

 Ill, p. 220) to his Phalops gibbicollis. 



Walckenaera apicata Blackw. is = Erigone antica (Reuss) Westr. 

 See that species above, p. 107. 



(Pag. 225.) 16. E. elevata [> Erigone bifrons (Blackw.) 1841]. 



Sijn.: 1841. Walckenaera BIFRONS Blackw., The differ, in the numb, of eyes 



etc., p. 634. 



1847. Argus bifrons Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., IV, p. 510. 



1851. Erigone elevata Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 41. 



1864. Walckenaera bifrons Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II , p. 302, PI. 



XXI, fig. 218. 



We have in Sweden two very closely related species of spiders, 

 both remarkably similar to Micryphantes elevatus C. Koch (Die 

 Arachn., IV, p. 133, Taf. CXLIII, figg. 334, 335), so that it might 

 seem uncertain to which of them Koch's specific name ought to be 

 assigned. In cT of both these species the head is elevated into a large 

 bladderlike knop beneath which all the eyes are situated ; but in the 

 one species, that namely, for which I think the name E. elevata 

 (C. Koch) ought to be retained (= E. elevata Thor., Eec. crit. aran., 

 p. 108), this knop is considerably larger, and, viewed from before, 



pane tangentibus, a posticis plus V/ 2 diametros reraotis; pedibus ferrugineis, 

 articulo extremo pallidiore, paris l:mi longioribus, longitudinem 3-plicem scuti 

 dorsualis excedentibus , palpis clava maxima , longitudine femoris , picea vix pilosa, 

 patella inermi, vix l / 3 tantum femoris aequante, tibia picea longitudine patellae, 

 valde diktats; maxillis transversis obtuse triangulis, in labium semiovale humil- 

 limum inclinatis, mandibulis brevissimis ut ceteris oris partibus piceis: abdomine 

 ovali ex cserulescente nigro vix piloso, punctis nigris adsperso, splendore sericeo, 

 paulo metallico. Longitudo fere V/ 2 lin. Femina ignota". (Ibid., p. 468). 



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