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Ida (Eeuss), Blackw. , of which I have been provided with speci- 

 mens through the kindness of Cambridge and Menge, the short tibial 

 joint is at its extremity, above, drawn out into a long, straight 

 spine pointing forwards and somewhat upwards; the palpal clava, 

 the diameter of which is less than double that of the thigh, has 

 a small, short, blunt, brown appendage at the base, outwards, 

 and in the middle, at the inner egde, exhibits a crooked, brown 

 spine directed upward and somewhat backward, and a longer, finer, 

 corkscrew-formed, black spine under the extremity. 



The extremity of the very short and broad tibial joint in 

 E. Reussii n. cf has near its outer side, above, a very fine, long 

 spine directed transversely inwards; the lamina shows at the base, 

 inwards, a transversal depression and a large, irregularly bilobated 

 excision stretching from the base forwards (?); it is, with the large 

 and very complicated bulbus, double as long as the two preceding 

 joints together, and at least as long as the femoral joint. — A very 

 peculiar characteristic of E. Reussii is the uncommon form of the 

 anterior tarsi in c? 1 , which are incrassated in the middle, on the upper 

 side. Vid. Westring's description. — I should have supposed Mwryph. 

 punctulatns C. Koch (Die Arachn., Ill, p. 12, Taf. LXXVI, fig. 170), 

 to be identical with E. Reussii, if Koch had not said of M. punc- 

 tidatus — a female — that the head was "projecting and somewhat 

 high", which is by no means the case with ? of E. Reussii. 



(Pag. 243.) 25. E. coriacea [= Eriyone hiemalis (Blackw.) 1841]. 



Syn.: 1841. Walckenaera hiemalis Blackw., The differ, in the numb, of eyes 



etc., p. 632. 



1851. Eeigone coeiacea Westr. , Forteckn. etc., p. 59. 

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



PI. XXI, fig. 217. 



1867. Micryphantes capito Ohl., Aran. d. Prov. Preuss., p. 55, 67. 



1868. Lophocarenum parvulum Menge, Preuss. Spinn., II , p. 202, PI. 



39, tab. 99. 



In this species the male's clava is oviform, pointed, strongly 

 arched at the base, and exhibits at the apex some processes, a couple 

 of which , viewed from without , are often slightly bent towards each 

 other, almost like the fingers on the claw of a lobster. The tibial 

 joint has on the outer side, at the apex, a slender, somewhat cur- 

 ved spur directed forwards; the upper side extends itself into a 

 broad, obliquely truncated, slightly outwards-curved blade, lying 



