200 



1830. Drassus gnaphosus Walck., Faune Fran?., Arachn., p. 159. 

 ?1830. „ nocturnus id. , ibid., p. 157 (saltern ad part). 

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



f. 1831, p. 136 (ad part: Var. b). 

 1834. FiLiSTATA maculata Reuss, Zool. Misc., Arachn., p. 200 (205), PL 



XIV, fig. 4. 



1837. Pythonissa holobera C. Koch, Uebers. d. Arachn. -Syst. , 1, p. 16. 

 1839. „ maculata id., Die Arachn., VI, p. 61, Taf. CXCVI, 



figg. 474, 475. 

 1851. Drassus maculatus Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 47. 

 1856. Pythonissa nocturna Thor., Eec. crit. Aran., p. 87. 

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



37, Taf. II, figg. 27—30. 

 ? 1867. „ COMATA Obi.., Aran. d. Prov. Preuss., p. 98. 



1868. Gnaphosa NOCTURNA Thor., in Eisen et Stcxberg, Om Gotska 



Sandon, p. 379. 



In my Rec. crit., loc. cit., I have endeavoured to show, that 

 the Ar. nocturna of Linkeus is identical with C. Koch's Pyth. macu- 

 lata, and not with e. g. Steatoda bipunctata, to which is has been 

 referred by that author. Already in 1765 Pyth. maculata C. Koch 

 was described by Stroti, loc. cit., under the name of Ar. nocturna 

 Linn. — Ar. nocturna Schranck (Enum. Ins. Austr., p. 528), which 

 "habitat in domibus rarius" can hardly belong to this species. — 

 Ohlert's synonym is uncertain, for he says, that the thighs of his 

 Pyth. comaia are black, whereas in G. nocturna the thighs of both 

 the hind pairs of legs are generally, at least in ?, reddish, with the 

 extremity only black (C. Koch however mentions and figures a cf, 

 in which all the thighs are black); moreover Ohlert says nothing 

 about the two yellow or white spots immediately above the anus, 

 which however might have been worn off in his specimen, as is 

 often the case (they are not mentioned by Linn^us either). — Dras- 

 sus TAnnaii Sav. et Aud. '), which Walckenaer cites under his D. 

 gnaphosus, is certainly another species. 



As to Walckenaer's Drassus nocturnus (H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, 

 p. 615) this species, with exclusion perhaps of the large, "6 lines" 

 long specimen, which he once had caught 2 ), is probably not different 



1) Descr. de PEgypte, Ed. 2, XXII, Arachn., p. 384, PI. V, fig. 7. 



2) In Faune Franc. Arachn., p. 158 he says of D. nocturnus: r je l'ai 

 prise une seule fois dans toute sa grandeur [6 lines] . . . Elle etait dans une feuille 

 de chene qu'elle avait roulee et enduite de soie". 



The description given by Costa (Cenni zoologici, p. 64) of his Drassus 

 tricolor 1835 agrees in several points with that of D. nocturmis AValck. ; it is 



