176 



(Pag. 337.) XII. DKASSUS [= Drassus (Walck.) 1805 ad part.-]. 

 Vid. Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 147. 



(Pag. 339.) 1. D. rubens ') [- Drassus quadri-punctatus (Linn.) 



1758, Var.l 



See the following species, D. sericeus Westr. 



(Pag. 340.) 2. D. sericeus [= Drassus quadri-punctatus (Linn.) 



1758]. 



Syn.: 1758. Aranea quadri-punctata Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, I, p. 622. 



1832. Drassus sericeus Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1831 , p. 136. 



? 1834. Filistata SERICEA Reuss, Zool. Misc. , Arachn., p. 199 (204), Taf. 



XIV, fig. 3. 



1837. Drassus sericeus Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 619. 



1839. „ „ C. Koch, Die Arachn., VI, p. 37, Taf. CXC,figg. 



457 , 458 (ad part). 

 1856. „ QUADRI-PUNCTATUS Thor., Eec. crit. Aran., p. 89. 

 ?1861. „ sericeus Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. Ill, PI. VI, 



fig. 67 (ad part.). 

 1861. ,, rubens [rubrens] Westr., Aran. Suec, p. 339. 

 1866. „ MEDIUS L. Koch, Die Arachn.-fam. d. Drassiden, p. 82, 



Taf. IV, fig. 56. 

 ? 1867. „ sericeus Ohl., Aran. d. Prov. Preuss., p. 93. 



That Linn.£us' Ar. 4-punctata is identical with this in Sweden 

 very common Drassus, and not with Steatoda bipunctata, to which it 



ceis; squamulis minutissimis virescenti-seneis tecti, pilosi et aculeati (aculeise.gr. 

 in femore l:mi paris supra 1, 1 vel tantum 1(?), antice 1, in tibia ejusdem paris 

 subtus 2, 2, in metatarso vero nullis); 4:ti paris pedes c:a 6'/ 2 , l ;m i c:a 5 mil- 

 lim. longi. Abdomen sub-ellipticum , 3 millim. longum, lat. maxima (in medio) 

 2 millim., nigro-fuscum , squamulis minutis virescenti-seneis , supra purpureo-mi- 

 cantibus undique vestitus, fascia media transversa angusta albicanti, in medio 

 angulata. Vulva ex fovea magna transversa sub-ovata constat, postice callo lato 

 humili, in medio abrupto, limitata, impressionibus duabus parvis in fundo prope 

 marginem anticum. 



In Sudermannia (ad Sundsor) a me ipso et in insula Gotska Sandon maris 

 Baltici ab Eisen et Stuxberg inventa. — $ ignotus. 



l) "Z>. rubrens n is (in Walckenaer) a lapsus calami for D. rubens, and 

 there is as little reason to copy that as any other grammatical or typographical 

 error. Menge and Ohlert have already corrected it. 



