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and the last under his D. fastuosus, do not belong to the genus 

 Miearia: the position of the eyes appears to refer them to quite a 

 different generic group, viz. Gnaphom (Latr.), Thok., or Pythxmissa 

 C. Koch, to which also Lucas himself considers them as belonging. 



(Pag. 334.) 2. M. pulicaria [= Miearia pulicaria (Scnd.) 1832]. 



Syn.: 1832. Clubiona pulicakia Stjnd , Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1831, p. 140. 



1833. Drassus NITENS Blackw., Charact. etc., in Lond. and Edinb. Phil. 



Mag., 3 Ser., Ill, p. 439. 

 ?1837. „ LUGUBRIS Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt,, I, p. 624. 

 ? 1837. Macaria corrusca C. K<ioh, Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst. , 1, p. 18. 



1839. „ FORMOSA id., Die Arachn., VI, p. 97, Taf. CCIU, fig. 501. 

 91839. „ guttulata id. , ibid., p. 95, Taf. CCIII, fig. 500. 

 91839. „ nitens id., ibid., p. 91, Taf. CCII, fig. 497. 



1841. Drassus formosus Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 488. 



1851. Mtcaria pulicaria Westr.. Fiirteckn. etc., p. 47. 



1858. Drassus micans Blackw., Descr. of six newly disc. spec, etc., in 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist,, 3 Ser., I, p. 430. 



1861. „ „ id., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 118, PI. VI, fig. 72. 



1861. „ nitens id., ibid., p. 119, PI. VI. fig. 73. 

 91861. MlCARlA „ Westr., Aran. Suec, p. 336. 



1866. „ PULICARIA L. Koch, Die Aracb.-fam. d. Drassiden, p. 62, 



Taf. IE, figg. 44-46. 



1867. Macaria Formosa Ohl.. Aran d. Prov. Preuss , p. 104. 

 1867. „ nitens id., ibid, (saltern ad partem)- 



Blackwall ranges, and beyond question rightly, Macaria formosa 

 C. Koch under his Drassus nitens, whereas L. Koch, though with a 

 note of interrogation, classes the latter under his Miearia nitens, 

 and takes up Dr. micans Blackw. as a synonym to Mic. pulicaria or 

 Mae. formosa C. Koch, Ohl. Dr. micans Blackw. is however cer- 

 tainly but a variety of D. nitens Blackw. or M. pulicaria, only devi- 

 ating from the normal form in having the abdomen more uniformly 

 coloured, just as M. formosa C. Koch is a variety with uniformly 

 coloured cephalothorax (without the white radiating streaks). I have 

 received from Ohlert, under the name of "Mac. nitens", a very young 

 undeveloped female, which I cannot distinguish from 31. pulicaria 

 by any other characteristic than that both cephalothorax and abdomen 

 are without the white lines, only with a little white spot just above 

 the anus; the thighs of at least the 1 st pair have evidently in that 

 specimen two spines, one above, at the base, and one in front, to- 

 wards the extremity, as in M. pidicaria. 



