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1805. Pholcus phalangioides Walck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 80. 



1836. „ „ Duges, in Cuv., Kegne Anim., VII, Arachn., 



p. 49, PI. 9, fig. 6. 

 1838. „ nemastomoides C. Koch , Die Arachn., IV, p. 97, Taf. 



CXXXVI, fig. 312. 

 1853. ,, Pluchii Lucas, Anim. artic. de Pile de Crete, in Kev. et 



Mag. de Zool., 2 Ser., V, p. 27. 

 1864. „ phalangioides Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 208, 



PL XV, fig. 137. 



1866. „ opilionoides Sim. , Monogr. des especes europ. du genre 



Pholcus, in Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 

 4 Ser., VI, p. 120, PI. 2, figg. 1-7. 



1869. „ nemastomoides Can. et Pav., Aran. Ital., p. 65 »). 



Fuesslin has left no description whatever of his Aran, phalan- 

 goides: he only says, that "it is not uncommon at Geneva in wine- 

 cellars and closed vaults". I have not yet heen able to get specimens 

 of Pholcus from Geneva to compare; but as Fuesslin refers to Geof- 

 feoy's Hist, abregee des Insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, 

 II, p. 651 , N 1 ' 17 , where a spider is described (without specific name), 

 which French writers generally consider as identical with Pholcus 

 phalangioides Walck. or Ph. opilionoides Simon, I think we may 

 preserve to this species the well known specific name phalangioi- 

 des, with Fuesslin as authority. (Also Hahn erroneously writes the 

 name "phalangoides" instead of phalangioides). — Ar. phalangioides 

 Geoffr. (Hist, abregee d. Ins., 2 e Ed., p. 734), under which Ar. 

 phalangioides Foucr. is cited, is unknown to me: Ar. phalangioides 

 Fourcr. is, according to Simon (loc. cit.), not a Pholcus at all, 

 whereas he cites Ar. meticulosa Fourcr. as synonymous with his 



deorsum sub-curvata; pars tibialis extus secundum bulbi latus exterius producta 

 ibique paullo longior et latior quam pars patellaris, lobo sub-triangulo , deor- 

 sum directo , ad basin; lamina lateri interiori partis tibialis, prope basin ejus, 

 affixa, £eque circiter longa atque pars femoralis, duplo longior quam latior, qua- 

 drilatera fere , versus apicem sub-dilatata , margine exteriore (superiore) late emar- 

 ginato , apice late et oblique truncato, angulo apicis interiore (inferiore) in uncum 

 magnum, acuminatum, curvatum, inferiora versus et turn deorsum (foras) direc- 

 tum producto, et dente acuto prope hunc uncum armato. Pedes solito longiores, 

 femoribus et metatarsis praesertim elongatis; l:mi paris longissimi, c:a 6Y 2 millim. 

 (patella hujus paris vix '/ 4 tibiae aequat, tarsus '/ 3 metatarsi); patellae supra 1, 

 tibiae supra 1, 1 setas sub-erectas habent, reliqua internodia talibus setis carent; 

 praeterea pilis fortibus rarioribus vestiti sunt pedes. 



Unicum specimen masculum, siccatum, cephalothorace et abdomine valde 

 corrugatis, vidi, in Ostrogothia a Cel. D:re E. Haglund inventum. 



l ) According to specimens kindly presented to me by Prof. Canestkini. 



