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appears to me to belong, although some of them have perhaps con- 

 founded the two species with each other. The lists of synonyms 

 which some writers, e. g. Lucas have given for these so often 

 confounded species, and in which one finds the 11 At. domestica'' of 

 almost all the old arachnologists referred to Tegenaria domestica 

 (Clerck), are therefore far from being free from errors. Lucas also 

 classes under T. domestica, Lister's "Tit. XV IP, which in Lister's 

 work 2 ) is called "Araneus subjlavus, hirsidus, prcelongis pedibus, do- 

 mesticus" — not "Ar. domestica" , as Lucas states. Blackwall on the 

 contrary rightly refers this Lister's spider to T. eivilis; the speci- 

 mens however of which Lister says: "vetustate fiunt facile omnium 

 multo grandiores, ut araneorum monstra videantur", have probably 

 belonged either to T. atrica or T. Guyoni (T. domestica Blackw.). 



It seems to me particularly astonishing, that Ar. Derhamii 

 Scop, should so often have been referred to T. domestica, and not to 

 T. eivilis; the statement: "habitat in domibus rete struens in angulis 

 cubilium et circa fenestras", may, it is true, be equally applicable 

 to both species, as perhaps also the expression, that "it is known to 

 every body" (which Scopoli renders by the Horatian phrase: "lippis 

 tonsoribusque nota") ; but the description : "pallide fusca aid rufescens, 

 Mrsuta, abdomine ovato , fusco-maculatd\ evidently agrees only with 

 T. eivilis, and I have therefore been unavoidably obliged to restore 

 to that species the oldest previously vacant specific name, by which 

 I have found it described. 



As regards Ar. longipes Fuessl., Fuesslin has not described that 

 species. When he cites as a synonym Scopoli's Aranea (Pholcus) 

 Pluchii, this is evidently a mistake, for he himself, on the same 

 page (N:o 1209) takes up a Pholcus, "Ar. phalangoides". That A. 

 longipes is a Tegenaria, is evident from his second citation: Petiver, 

 Gazophylacium Naturae et Artis, Tab. 77, fig. 14 (Vol. II, Dec. 7 

 et 8): the spider there figured by Petiver, and which he (Catal. 

 class, et top. Vol. IP') calls "A. domesticus max. pedibus longiss. hir- 

 sutis", is evidently the male of a Tegenaria, probably of T. Guyonii 

 Guer. (T. domestica Blackw.). Fuesslin's statement, that his Ar. lon- 

 gipes is met with "zu Genf, hinter Schranken und Bettstellen etc. 

 nich selten", seems to me to indicate, that he had T. Derhamii before 

 him. — Sulzer, who under his Ar. longipes, also found in Geneva, 



1) Note monogr. snr les Aran, composant le genre Tegenaria, in Ann. de 

 la Soc. Entom. de France, 2 Ser., II, p. 461 et seq. 



2) Hist. Anim. Angl. tres Tract. Unus de Aran, etc , p. 59. 



