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where C. Koch also met with the species; I have found them some- 

 times in houses, sometimes at a considerable distance from human 

 dwellings (e. g. in a heap of stones in a wood near Kissingen). 

 From Austria, where the species was first met with by Schbanck, I 

 have specimens kindly given me by Mr L. v. Kempelen of Vienna, 

 who had found them under stones far from houses. It is this spe- 

 cies , that according to Zimmeemann ') is common at Niesky in Silesia. 

 The species is then spread over almost the whole of Germany 2 ) , at 

 least at far as 52° north latidude; it is also found in Poland 3 ), and 

 although rarely, south of the Alps, in the Canton Tessinin Siuitzer- 

 land, and in Lombardy 4 ). — Ph. phalangioides (Fuessl.) nob. on the 

 contrary has not, as far as I am aware, been met with in Germany 

 north of the Alps (in southern Tyrol it is already met with at Meran 

 and Villanders, according to Ausseeee 5 )). It appears to have its home 

 chiefly in the lands around the Mediterranean, just as Ph. rivulatus 

 Foesk. ; in our part of the world it is spread over its more southerly 

 and westerly countries. In the whole of southern Europe (southern 

 Russia, Greece, Italy, Spain) it seems to be common: I have myself 

 taken it at Eome and in northern Italy, as also at Nice. In France 

 it appears to be the commonest, but probably not, the only species 

 occurring, and it is also found in the southern (and western?) parts 

 of Switzerland. It is also this species, that has been found by van 

 Hasselt (loc. cit.) to belong to the Fauna of the Netherlands 6 ). 



1 ) Die Spinnen d. Umgeg. v. Niesky, in Abhandl. d. Nat.-forsch. Ge- 

 sellsch. zu Gorlitz, Bd XIV, p. 32. — Dr Zimmeemann has had the kindness to 

 send me specimens of both sexes of his Pholcus opilionoides. 



2) In the extreme north of Germany it seems to be absent. I have not 

 met with it at Travemiinde, nor is it mentioned by Ohlert as found in Konigs- 

 berg, nor by Menge as inhabiting Danzig. — In a list of Spiders from the 

 neighbourhood of Miinster in Westphalia, communicated to me by Mr F. Kaesch, 

 no Pholcus is mentioned as found in that locality. 



3) L. Koch, Beitr. z. Kenntn. d. Arachn. -fauna Galiziens, p. 6. 



4) Vide Pavesi, in Notizie chim.-agron. della provincia di Pavia, p. 109; 

 Canesteini e Pavesi, Aran. Ital., p. 65, 97. 



5) Die Arachn. Tirols, I, p. 151. 



6) I have sent specimens of both Ph. opilionoides and Ph. phalangioides to 

 Dr VAN Hasselt, who writes me that the latter is identical with his Ph. opilio- 

 noides. and that he has not yet observed the former species in the Netherlands. 

 A male palpus of Ph. opilionoides V. Hass., which Dr VAN Hasselt also sent me, 

 showed at once that it had belonged to the true Ph. phalangioides. 



I . make use of this opportunity to express to Dr VAN Hasselt my deep 

 thankfulness for the friendly communications, with which he has several times 

 honoured me. 



