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ling '), which is common in many parts of Germany and Italy, and 

 has probably often been confounded with A. labyrinthiea, has not 

 hitherto been met with in Sweden. Keyserling thinks, that A. 

 labyrinthiea Walck. (H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 20) is = A. similis, 

 which Walckenaer's description of the organs of copulation best suits; 

 it is however very probable that Walckenaer under the name of 

 A. labyrinthiea confounded both the species. Walckenaer cites erro- 

 neously among the names of this spider A. montana 0. Koch (in 

 Herr.-Scileff., Deutschl. Ins., 125, 11), which according to Koch 

 himself is the same species as his Textrix montana 2 ), belonging to 

 the genus Histopona Thor. 3 ). 



Is the Greek A. orientalis C. Koch 4 ) really a different species 

 from A. labyrinthiea? A male which I caught at Florence, is consi- 

 derably larger than my Swedish and German specimens of A. laby- 

 rinthiea — about as large as A. orientalis is said to be — but is not 

 specifically different from the former. 



(Pag. 310.) V. TEXTKIX [= Textrix Sund. 1833]. 

 Vid. Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 134. 



(Pag. 311.) 1. T. lycosina [ = Teoclrioc denticulata (Oliv.) 1789]. 



Syn.: 1789. Aranea denticulata Oliv., Encycl. meth. , IV, p. 213. 



1804. „ CALOPHTLLA Panz., Syst. Nomencl. , p. 244 (Sch^eff., Ic. 



Ins. Eatisb., I, Tab. XLH, fig. XIII). 



1832. Agelena LYCOSINA Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1831, p. 130. 



1833. Textrix „ id., Consp. Arachn. , p. 19. 



1833. „ agilis Blackw., Charact. etc., in Lond. and Edinb. Phil. 



Mag., 3 Ser., Ill, p. 109. 



1) Beschr. neuer Spinn., in Verhandl. d. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. in Wien, 

 Xffl, (1863), p. 6, PI. X, figg. 2, 3. — Agal. similis is considerably smaller 

 than A. labyrinthiea; its cephalo thorax is brown with a pale central band and 

 pale edges. The abdomen has along the whole length of the upper part a paler 

 brown band between the oblique whitish grey streaks; the projection under the 

 extremity of the tibial joint, outwards, of the palpi in & is pretty broad, with 

 two teeth at the extremity, not simply pointed as iu A. labyrinthiea. — May not 

 A. gracilis C. Koch (Die Arachn., VIH, p. 59, Tab. CCLXIX, fig. 634) be — A. 

 similis? 



2) Die Arachn., VIII, p. 53, Taf. CCLXVII, fig. 630. 



3) On Eur. Spid., p. 120, 133. 



4) Die Arachn., VIII, p. 58, Taf. CCLXIX, fig. 634. 



