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1833. THOMISUS limbatus IIahn, Monogr. Aran., 7, Tab. IV, fig. a. 

 1845. Philodromus limbatus C. Koch, Die Arachn., XII, p. 85, Tab. 



CCCCXVI, figg. 1017, 1018. 

 1861. „ dispar Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 91, PI. V, 



fig. 55. 



The synonym here given from Walckenaer seems to me per- 

 fectly certain, and I have therefore, in conformity with Blackwall, 

 accepted the name dispar for this species, which Sundevall, C. Koch 

 and several others have denominated Ph. limbatus. — Walckenaer (Ins. 

 Apt., I, p. 559) erroneously identifies Sundevall's Ph. limbatus with 

 his own Ph. argentatus, a to me unknown species, which is stated 

 to have the abdomen "tres-allonge, cylindrique". — Ph. dispar had 

 already been mentioned by Walckenaer 1805 in his Tabl. d. 

 Aran. p. 37, under the name of Thomisus dispar, but it is not there 

 characterized. 



C. Koch quotes under his Philodr. limbatus: Sch^ff. , Ic. Ins. 

 Ratisb., I, Tab. XXXVII, fig. xi (= Ar. litterata, Var., Panz., Syst. 

 Nomencl., p. 53, 244); but that figure appears to me to represent 

 a young specimen of Epeira umbratica (Clerck). — The synonyms 

 Thorn, griseus Hahn and Philodr. fallax Sund., given by Walckenaer 

 (H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 554) as belonging to this species, are 

 also incorrect. Nor does Phil, fusco-marginatus (De Geer), Scnd. be- 

 long to it: vid. preced. spec. 



(Pag. 452.) 4. Ph. tigl'inus [_= Arta/tes pmcilus n.]. 



It is not easy to decide, whether Philodr. tigrinus Walck. be 

 the same species as that here described by Westring, as Westring 

 supposes, or whether, as I think most probable, it be nothing else 

 than Art. margaritatus (Clerck), and accordingly not specifically dif- 

 ferent from Ph. je.junus Walck. At any rate the specific name ti- 

 grinus cannot here be retained, for De Geer's Aranea tigrina is evidently 

 quite another species, and identical with Artamus jejunus C. Koch, 

 and may either, as is my conviction, be only a variety of Art. mar- 

 garitatus, or, as C. Koch and others have supposed, an independent 

 species ')• I have therefore considered myself obliged to exchange 



1) Another "Aran, tigrina", apparently differing from all these forms, had 

 already been described in 1776 (i. e. two years before De Geer described his 

 Ar. tigrina) by P. L. S. Muller (Linn^ii Vollstand. Natur.-Syst., Suppl.- u. Re- 

 gister-Band, p. 342), according to Martini and Gceze (Lister's Natur.-Gesch. d. 



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