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in front of tbe posterior edge are usually to be seen two small longi- 

 tudinal, very close, almost parallel costae, which are especially visible 

 in specimens preserved in spirits. L. Koch says of the male's palpi 

 in his C. pkragmitis, that the under tooth of the process of the ti- 

 bial joint is "auficdrts gebogenf : this I cannot perceive in my speci- 

 mens. L. Koch's fig. 203 (loc. cit.) exhibits that tooth far too long 

 and curved upward; neither does fig. 202 give any correct idea of 

 the appearance of the vulva. — Beneath the tibiae of the 4 th pair 

 are usually only 1, 1 spines; yet I have sometimes, and in one and 

 the same specimen, found 1,1,1 and 1, 1 spines. 



G. holosericea L. Koch is smaller than C. holosericea (De Geer); 

 in my specimens (identified by L. Koch) the cephalothorax is about 

 3 millimeters long. The mandibles are not so thick and coarse as 

 in this latter, so that the cephalothorax is tolerably narrowed in front, 

 and its sides rounded. The colour is variable, paler or darker, as 

 in G. pallidula, C. fratetorum, G. trivialis etc. The vulva forms a 

 large brown area, the posterior corners of which are rounded off and 

 drawn out into two small processes gently converging inwards. In 

 the male, the mandibles are only the same length as the metatarsi, 

 and scarcely half as thick again as the thighs of the first pair; the 

 outer side of the tibial joint of the palpus is produced into a short, 

 very coarse apophysis directed forwards and outwards, which is above 

 continued with a black, broad, rounded-triangular tooth pointing for- 

 ward; on the outer and under side the apical edge of the apophy- 

 sis is black, incrassated or bent outwards, and terminates below 

 and inwards in a little forward-directed tooth. The tibia of tbe 

 4 th pair has 1, 1,1 spines below. This species, or G. germaniea, 

 as I have proposed to call it, has hitherto not been met with in 

 Sweden. 



G. holosericea Blackw. or G. grisea L. Koch belongs on the 

 other hand to our Fauna; but it has as j r et been found only in the 

 most southerly province of the county, Skane (by Mr C. Koth, 

 Conservator of the Zoological Museum at Lund). Specimens from 

 Finnland and the Finnish Lappmark, identified as C. grisea by Dr 

 Koch (who also has presented me with specimens from Niirnberg), 

 have been sent me by v. Nordmann. Cambridge has kindly sent me 

 specimens of "G. holosericea Blackw." — This species is about as large 

 as C. germaniea. The male's mandibles are very slender, long and 

 projecting, the patellar joint of the palpus short, sometbing longer 

 than it is broad at the apex, the still shorter tibial joint has at its 



