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1837. Agelena macullulata Wat,ok., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 344. 

 1841. Textrix LYCOSINA C. Koch, Die Arachn., VIII, p. 46, Taf. CCLXVI, 



figg. 623, 624. 



1841. Tegenaria lycosina Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt, II, p. 15. 

 1844. ,, fuliginea Luc, Note monogr. s. 1. Aran, compos, lc 



genie Tegenaria, in Ann. de la Soc. Ent. 



de France, 2 Ser., II, p. 468. 

 1861. Textrix lycosina Black w., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 172, PI. XII, 



fig. 110. 



Olivier (loc. cit.) has described under the name of Ar. denticu- 

 lata a spider belonging to "les Araigne'es tapissieres" , under which 

 he cites Lister's "2 it. XX: Araneus fuligineus et humerorum fastigio 

 et clunium pictura Candida '), a species generally and correctly con- 

 sidered as identical with Textrix lycosina Sund. Olivier's own de- 

 scription ■) is very good, and leaves no reason to doubt that his re- 

 ference to Lister is correct. I therefore consider myself obliged to 

 restore to the species its oldest name, denticulata. 



Aranea macullulata Dot. 1831 3 ) from Spain, which is cited by 

 f. inst. Walckenaer and Lucas under this species, is certainly another; 

 its cephalothorax is stated to be grey, with "une raie noire irre'gu- 

 liere ou comme dentele'e de chaque cote de la ligne me'diane , et sur 

 ses bords, pres de l'origine des pattes, trois ou quatre mouchetures" ; 

 its sternum is "marque' de deux lignes noires" , the upper part of 

 the abdomen with "mouchetures noiratres, dont le plus grand nom- 

 bre est dispose' en deux series longitudinales le long de la ligne me- 

 diane" etc. — a description which does not at all agree with the 

 spider before us. 



Walckenaer and Lucas (loc. cit.) quote under this species Ar. 

 Rwselii Scop., which however certainly does not belong to it, but 

 to Agalena labyrinthica. Lucas also takes up among its synonyms 

 n Ar. fuliginea Lister", and calls it 2 eg. fuliginea. Lister however 

 knew of no "nomina trivialia" or specific names: fuligineus is only 



1) Hist. Aniin. Anglian ties Tract, etc., p. 67, Tab. I, fig. 20. 



2) 'Aranea fidir/inosa, abdomine oblongo-ovato , dorso macula magna den- 

 ticulata. Cette espece est de grandeur movenne. Sa couleur est d'un noir de snie. 

 Le corcelet est eleve et blancliatre a sa partie superieure. L 'abdomen est ovale 

 alonge: on y voit une gmnde tache blanchatre dont les bords de chaque cote 

 sont denteles. £Ue se trouve en Angleterre et aux environs de Paris". Oliv. , 

 loc. cit. 



3) DUF0UR, Descr. et fig. dc quelques Aran. nouv. ou mal connues, in Ann. 

 d. Sc. Nat., XXII, p. 360, PI. 10, fig. 2. 



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