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Westring's name of the spider he has here described for a new ap- 

 pellation, and call it Artanes poecihs. By having five pair of spines 

 on the under side of the fore tibiae, the area of the central eyes 

 considerably longer than it is broad behind, and the anterior row of 

 eyes much more curved, A. poecilus is easily distinguished from A. 

 margaritatus , which it much resembles in form and colour. The 

 Vulva also is somewhat different: it is longer and narrower than in 

 A. margaritatus, and appears to consist of two long and narrow 

 fovese, separated by a narrow septum. I have had the opportunity 

 of examining the very specimens described by Westring, which 

 however are much damaged; an adult female, from Silesia, has been 

 kindly presented to me by Dr Zimmermann, of Limburg on the Lahn. 

 I have never myself met with this spider. 



(Pag. 454.) 5. Ph. margaritatus [= Artanes margaritatus (Clerck) 



1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus MARGARITATUS, Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 130, PI. 6, tab. 3. 



1758. Aranea levipes Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, I, p. 624. 



1763. „ Wilkii Scop., Ent. Cam., p. 400. 



1776. „ ornata Sulz., Gesch. d. Ins., p. 254, PI. XXX, fig. 5. 



1781. „ l^evipes Fabr., Spec. Ins., I, p. 539. 

 ?1805. Thomisus tigrinus Walck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 34 (ad part.). 

 ?1825. Philodromus tigrinus id., Faune Franc., Arachn., p. 87. 



182. . Thomisus levipes Hahn, Monogr. Aran., 4, PI. Ill, fig. B. 



1831. „ „ id. , Die Arachn., I, p. 120, Tab. XXXIV, fig. 90. 



1833. Philodromus tigrinus Scnd., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. 



Handl. f. 1832, p. 225. 



1837. Artamus levipes C. Koch, Uebers. d. Arachn. -Syst., 1, p. 27. 



1856. „ margaritatus Thor., Eec. crit. Aran., p. 73. 



1857. Philodromus pallidus Blackw. , Suppl. to a Catal., cet., in Ann. and 



Mag. of Nat. Hist. , 2 Ser., XX, p. 499. 

 1861. „ „ id., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 93, PI. V, fig. 56. 



1867. ,, ambiguus id., Notes on Spid., cet., in Ann. and Mag. 



of Nat. Hist., 3 Ser., XX, p. 208. 

 1870. Artanes margaritatus Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 180. 



Var. /?, tigrinus: 



1778. Aranea tigrina De Geer, Mem., Vn, p. 302, PL 18, fig. 25. 

 1801. „ jejuna Panz., Faun. Ins. Germ., 83, 21. 



Spinn.): "Die Tigerspinne (Aranea tigrina): der Korper gross und rostfarbig; der 

 Hinterleib langlich oval, ziegel- oder rostfarbig und schwarz punktirt; das Brust- 

 stiick oben auf der Lange nach eine gelbe Linie , die Seiten des Hinterleibes etwas 

 blass; LiNNffius in Schweden" [?]. Vid. Martini and Gceze, loc. cit., p. 266. 



