324 



lenta, to which others have supposed it to belong, it is probably not 

 possible with any certainty to decide; but as that spider did not 

 receive from Clerck any separate specific name, the question is of 

 very little consequence. — Of the synonyms which C. Koch has 

 taken up under his L. taniata, L. pulverulenta Stjnd. no more be- 

 longs to it than Ar. nivalis Clerck, which Sundevall cites under his 

 L. nivalis. L. meridiana Hahn, which both Sundevall and Westring 

 have with a note af interrogation affiliated to this species, is un- 

 doubtedly the same spider, which Westring calls L. nemoralis ( = L. 

 nivalis C. Koch), concerning which vid. sup., p. 274. ' Walckenaer's 

 L. trucidatoria , under which L. taniata C. Koch is cited, probably 

 belongs, as Koch and Westring suppose, to this species, although 

 the description does not in all respects suit very well; I have been 

 favoured by Simon with a large female specimen of L. tamiata Westr. 

 from Paris, with very distinctly annulated thighs, under the name 

 of L. trucidatoria Walck. L agretyca Sav. et Aud. , described and 

 figured in the Descr. de l'Egypte, 2 l> Ed., XXII, p. 369, PI. IV, 

 fig. 6, which Walckenaer inserts among the synonyms of his L. 

 trucidatoria , and which even Cambridge ') supposes to be synony- 

 mous with that species, cannot however belong to the species now 

 before us. On the other hand the males, which Walckenaer de- 

 scribes under the name of "L. vorax Var. 2", and which, he says, 

 have "le corselet presque entierement noir et les deux paires de pattes 

 anterieures plus noires" (Ins. Apt., I, p. 314), appear to me to be- 

 long to L. taniata, and not to L. vorax (T. trabalis). — Bavarian 

 specimens of both sexes of Westring's L. taniata have been sent to 

 me by Dr L. Koch under the name of L. taniata C. Koch. 



Now as regards Ar aculeatus Clerck, I have already in Kec. 

 crit. Aran., p. 46, expressed ray conviction, that it is a variety of the 

 spider called by C. Koch L. taniata. That it is one of our largest 

 Lycosoidse, is evident as well from Clerck's figure, as from the cir- 

 cumstance, that the species has received its place between Ar. fa- 

 brilis and Ar. inquilinus, the two largest Tarentula-syecies met with 

 in Sweden ( n L. taniata" is not always so small as Westring and 

 Koch state: I have males of which the cephalothorax measures 5 '/ 2 

 millim. in length). The large spines on the thighs, of which Clerck 

 speaks, are of course nothing else than the two usual, more upright 



]) Notes on some Spiders and Scorpions from St. Helena, in Proceed, of the 

 Zool. Soc. of London, 1869, p. 542. 



