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Cambr., which, as appears from specimens sent me by Ohlert and 

 Cambridge, are identical. Mekge's synonyms are certain, although the 

 fovea on either side of the head-eminence of the $ has escaped his ob- 

 servation: these fovese are clearly visible in all the specimens that I 

 possess, among which is a Lophoc. apiculatum kindly presented to 

 me by Menge himself. — The extremity of the tibial joint of the 

 male's palpi is above drawn out into a broad process, which on its 

 outer side, at the base, has a coarse, broad tooth; towards the apex 

 it is slender and curved outwards, and immediately under the apex 

 itself projects a bristle or fine spine directed forwards and out- 

 wards: the bulbus exhibits on its outer side a very long, spirally 

 curved, coarse bristle or spine. 



Eeuss' synonym appears to me tolerably sure , and I have there- 

 fore followed Westring in preserving the specific name pusilla. I 

 have also received specimens of this species from L. Koch under the 

 name af n E. pusilla Wid." — Menge classes C. Koch's Micryphantes 

 ochropus under a quite different species , Microneta ochropus Menge 

 of which he kindly presented me with a d 1 oi, and which, both 

 as regards the size and form of the cephalothorax , differs greatly 

 from Koch's description and figure. This M. ochropus Menge is 

 identical with Neriene innotabilis Cambr. 1863 2 ). 



(Pag. 241.) 24. E. parallela \_Erigone Beussii N.]. 



Theridium parallelum Reuss 3 ) cannot be the spider here described 

 by Westring. Not only is the head in Eeuss' figure considerably 

 higher than in Westring's species, but the palpal clava, which in 

 'liter, parallelum Reuss in stated to be "small and insignificant", is 

 in E. parallela Westr. quite unusually large, with a diameter three 

 times as great as that of the thigh , or about as great as the breadth 

 of the whole clypeus. I therefore could not preserve the name pa- 

 rallela for this species, but have assigned it a new, Eeussii. The 

 specific name given by Reuss is, no doubt rightly, claimed by Black- 

 wall for another species, Walckenaera parallela Blackw. 4 ), which is 

 identical with Lophocarenum elongation Menge 5 ). In this E. paral- 



1) Prcuss. Spinn., Ill, p. 228, PL 44, tab. 127. 



2) Descr. of 24 new spec, of spiel., in Zoologist, 1863, p. 8582 (22). 



3) Zool. Misc., Arachn., p. 228 (234), PI. XVI, fig. 1. 



4) Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 296, PI. XX, fig. 211. 



5) Preuss. Spinn., II, p. 209, PI. 41, tab. 106. 



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