137 



1864. Neriene viauia Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 255, PI. XVIII, 



fig. 171. 



1869. MlC'RONETA QUISQUILIARUM Menge, Preuss. Spinn. , III, p. 229, 



PI. 45, tab. 128. 



Cambridge has kindly sent me specimens of E. quisquiliarum 

 Westr. under the name of Neriene viaria Blackwall, whose descrip- 

 tion also suits Westring's spider. 



Of the rather nearly allied E. (Neriene) subtilis Cambr. '), which 

 has the tibial joint drawn out into a sharp projection in front, 

 and which is also distinguished by its large, very complicated 

 clava, with the lamina turning its convex side inwards and raised, 

 towards the middle, above, into a large angular protuberance, Dr 

 T. Tullberg has captured a $ ad. in Skane. This species is now 

 for the first time recorded as inhabiting our country. 



(Pag. 279.) 44. E. gibba [= Pholcomma gibbum (Westr.) 1851]. 



Si/n.: 1851. Erigone gibba Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 44. 



1862. Theridium projectum Cambr., Descr. of ten new spec, etc., in 



Zoologist, 1862, p. 7962. 

 1869. Pholcomma projectum Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 98. 



Of Ther. projectum Cambr. , the identity of which with E. gibba 

 Westr. I had (loc. cit.) not observed, Cambridge has sent me spe- 

 cimens of both sexes, which have been examined by Westring and 

 also by him acknowledged as identical with his E. gibba. — The 

 peculiar position and relative size of the eyes — two very small eyes 

 in the centre and three unusually large ones , arranged very near to 

 each other in a triangle, on each side, almost as in Pholcus — has 

 induced me to make this species the type of a separate genus. (Conf. 

 Cambr. and Thor., locis cit.) 



Pholcomma gibbum is not, as one might possibly be led to sup- 

 pose , the same species as Ceratina rubella Menge 2 ) , in which the 

 two auterior central eyes are, it is true, uncommonly small and 

 close to each other, but the remaining eyes are of the usual size, and 

 the 4 posterior eyes all separated by intervals equal to an eye's 

 diameter. 



1) Descr. of 24 new spec, of Spid. etc., p. 8584 (24). 



2) Preuss. Spinn., II, p. 172, PL 32, tab. 75. 



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