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men in my collection from the neighbourhood of Niirnberg, which 

 has been examined by Westring and by him declared identical with 

 the spider he has here described. — Walckenaer cites under D. Hom- 

 bergii "D. scalaris C. Koch' 1 (Herr.-Schjeff., Deutschl. Ins., 134, 23, 

 which Number I have not been able to consult). In "Die Arachni- 

 den" C. Koch nowhere mentions this D. scalaris. 



Dysdera parvida Duf. 1820 generally cited under this spe- 

 cies, is probably another spider. The mandibles in Dcfour's figure 

 of D. parvula 2 ) are much longer than in D. Hombergii, and the 

 genital bulb of this last is not so simple as it seems to be in Du- 

 four's spider, in which it is "termine par une seule pointe, sans 

 crochet". In D. Hombergii the genital bulb is inversely oviform (fixed 

 with its smaller end), and at the free extremity again somewhat 

 produced and irregularly dilated, and there provided with a long 

 fine curved spine; seen in a certain position it resembles a vase or 

 jug, of which the above mentioned spine forms the handle. 



Dysdera punctata C. Koch 1839 3 ) of which I have taken several 

 individuals at Nice, and which Walckenaer (H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, 

 p. 445) and Blackwall refer to I). Hombergii, is an entirely diffe- 

 rent species: it does not even belong to the genus Harpactes, but to 

 Dysdera sens, strict. 



It seems to me but little probable, that D. lepida C. Koch 4 ) 

 is only a varity of D. Hombergii, as Walckenaer loc. cit. supposes, 

 and as even Doblika considers probable, although he enters it as a 

 separate species (loc. cit., p. 121). Koch's description of the eyes, 

 mandibles, abdomen etc. of D. lepida — to say nothing of the co- 

 lour — appears to me irreconcileable with that supposition. 



(Pag. 303.) III. TEGENARIA [= Tegenaria (Latr.) 1804]. 

 Vid. Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 129. 



(Pag. 304.) 1. T. atrica [= Tegenaria alrica C. Koch 1843]. 



Syn.: 1843. Tegenaria atrica C. Koch, Die Arachn., X, p. 105, Taf. CCCLIIJ, 



fig. 825. 



1) Dtjfour, Observ. s. quelques Arachn. quadripulm., in Ann. gen. d. Sc. 

 Phys., V, p. 115. 



2) Dufour, Descr. et fig. de quelques Aran. nouv. ou mal connues, in Ann. 

 d. Sc. Nat, XXII, (1831) p. 370, PI. 11, fig. 4. 



3) Die Arachn., V, p. 84, Taf. CLXVH, figg. 395, 396. 



4) Ibid., p. 85, Taf. CLXVII, fig. 397. 



