214 



1831. Clubiona amarantha Hahn, Die Araclm. , I, p. 113, Taf. XXIX, 



fig. 85. 



1832. ,, holosericea Sund. , Sv. Spindl. Beskr. , in Vet.-Akad. 



Handl. f. 1831, p. 142 (ad part.: forma 

 principalis). 



1839. „ incomta C. Koch, Die Arachn., VI, p. 18, Taf. CLXXXV, 



fig. 442. 



1843. ,, epimelas Blackw. , A Catal. of Spid. etc., in Transact. 



of the Linn. Soc, XIX, p. 115. 

 1851. „ amarantha Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 49. 

 185(5. ,, pallidula Tiiok., Eec. exit. Aran., p. 38. 

 1861. „ epimelas Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 124, PI. 



VII, fig. 77. 



? 1861. „ FORMOSA id., ibid., p. 125, PI. VII, fig. 78. 



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



323, Taf. XIII, figg. 208-210. 



1867. „ AMARANTHA Ohl., Aran d. Prov. Preuss., p. 99. 



That this species, which is met with over the whole of Swe- 

 den , and is at least in Upland commoner than any other, with which 

 it could be confounded, is identical with Ar. paUidulus Clerck, Air* 

 holosericea Linn, and the forma principalis of Club, holosericea Sund., 

 whereas Ar. holosericea De Geer is = C. holosericea Westr. (C. 

 phragmitis L. Koch, C. dinognatha Cambr.), I have in my Rec. crit. 

 Aran, endeavoured to prove. A far more difficult task, than the 

 disentanglement of the synonyms of these Swedish authors, is to di- 

 stinguish those which are met with in the works of foreign writers; 

 most of the lists of synonyms for this and the nearly allied species 

 are full of errors, and 1 have also myself been obliged to abandon 

 opinions I had formerly entertained on some of the synonyms of 

 these spiders. 



As regards now first Walckenaer's Clubiona holosericea and C. 

 amarantha — the last of which has been by Westring, myself and 

 L. Koch considered identical with C. pallidula — the figures of C. 

 holosericea given by Walckenaer both in Hist. Nat. d. Araignes, N:o 

 4, 3, and in Faune Franc., Arachn., PI. 7, fig. 8, so closely resemble 

 in colour, form, and size the paler varity (Var. a Westr.) of C. 

 pallidula, that I could not avoid taking it up as (at least) ad par- 

 tem identical with that species; that C. pallidula is met with at Pa- 

 ris, is certain, for I myself possess specimens from that locality, with 

 which I have been favoured by Simon. It is however probable , that 

 C. holosericea Walck. includes also other species, as e. g. that de- 

 scribed by L. Koch under the name of C. holosericea (see next 



