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tirely grey, only a little darker at the sides and paler longitudinally 

 along the middle; sometimes (in the Var. tigrmiis or jejunus) it ex- 

 hibits behind two large black spots, and often also, near the centre, 

 a similar triangular spot, with the point directed backwards, 

 and a pair of irregular black spots on each side of the pars cepha- 

 lica. The markings of the abdomen consist normally of an oblique 

 black stripe or spot on the fore part of the side itself and a similar 

 stripe somewhat behind the 'middle, also on the side, both bordered 

 behind with white, and moreover a black stripe behind, on both 

 sides, a little above the mamillse; sometimes a couple of small ob- 

 lique black stripes are met with on both sides in the middle of the 

 hinder part of the back of the abdomen. Sometimes a part or even 

 the whole of this marking disappears, and the abdomen is of uniform 

 colour, throughout light or dark grey, occasionally sprinkled with 

 small white spots. Or sometimes (Var. tigrinus) the above-mentioned 

 spots on the sides and above the anus are dilated into large irre- 

 gular bands, extending high up on the back of the abdomen, and 

 usually uniting on its sides; there is in this case generally also a 

 dark longitudinal spot in front, and smaller spots situated in pairs 

 on the hinder part of the back of the abdomen. Sometimes thearc- 

 terior lateral stripe is bordered behind and inwards by a pretty, 

 reddish or yellowish patch; another also very pretty variety has behind 

 the posterior black lateral stripe a large, white or yellowish patch on a 

 dark grey ground. The colour of the legs varies in the same manner: 

 in paler specimens the dark rings on the thighs are often indistinct: 

 in very dark specimens the ground-colour of the legs, especially on 

 the outer side, is black, with paler rings or spots. In all my speci- 

 mens there is a black stripe under the anterior side of the first 

 pair of legs. 



(Pag. 457.) 6. Ph. aiireolllS [= Philodromus aureolas (Clerck) 



1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus aureolus Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 133, PI. 6, tab. 9. 

 1789. Aranea aureola Oliv., Encycl. Meth., IV, p. 226. 

 ?1789. „ INAURATA id., ibid., p. 225. 



1804. „ quadri-lineata Panz., Syst. Nomencl., p. 244. (Schjsff., 



Ic. Ins. Katisb., Ill, Tab. CCXXVI, fig. Vli). 



1805. Thomisus aureolus Walck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 35. 

 1825. Philodromus aureolus id., Faune Franf., Araclin., p. 92. 



1834. Thomisus aureolus Hahn, Die Arachn., II, p. 57, Tab. LXII, figg. 



144, 145. 



