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mens from Bavaria of this Westringian species under the name of 

 L. euneata C. Kocn, and Cambridge has supplied me with English 

 specimens of rapax Blackw. — L. Gaateinansis C. Koch is without 

 a doubt the same species as his L. euneata'. a tooth or angle on 

 each side of the dark lancet-like spot on the abdomen , whereby 

 Gaateinennn is said to be distinguished from L. euneata , is usually 

 found even in the Swedish specimens, as also the oblique, alter- 

 nating dark and pale line on the sides of the abdomen, which are 

 shown in C. Koch's figure of L. Gasteinensis ?. One of the specimens 

 of L. euneata C. Koch, which I have received from L. Koch, belongs, 

 according to these characteristics, to T. Gasteinensis, but differs 

 quite as little from T. pulverulenta, as do the specimens of L. euneata 

 C. Koch , that are without the tooth on the spot on the back 

 of the abdomen. Zimmermann also places L. Gasteinensis under 

 T. pulverulenta, whereas Ausserer (Die Arachn. Tirols, I, p. 153) 

 considers it to represent a variety of T. trabalis, which is certainly 

 wrong. See Rec. crit Aran., p. 57. — L. euneata C. Koch in Herr.- 

 Sch;eff. , Deutschl. Ins., 122, 17, J 8, does not belong to this spe- 

 cies, but to T. trabalis (L. vorax C. Koch), according to C Koch 

 himself. 



Lye. ephippium Hahn, which is said to be found "in marshy 

 places", is a very uncertain synonym, but it can however hardly be 

 any other than either T. pulverulenta, to which it is referred by 

 C. Koch, or else possibly T euneata. L. vorax Hahn on the other 

 hand, which C. Koch aggregates to this species, belongs most prob- 

 ably to T. trabalis. Vid. supr. , p. 322. 



T. pulverulenta is without difficulty distinguished from T. tra- 

 balis and T. aeuleata (L. taniata) by its smaller size, and from the 

 first by the absence of the pale, sharply defined lateral bands at the 

 margins of the cephalothorax , which distinguish T. trabalis, both cf 

 and J: generally speaking the female only of 2\ pulverulenta has 

 lateral bands, which are however far less distinct, and of a dark red- 

 dish brown colour. The male is distinguished from the about 

 equal-sized T. euneata by its fore-tibiae , which are of the ordinary 

 form, little, if at all, thicker than the other tibiae: the females on the 

 contrary are often very difficult to distinguish. The comparatively 

 longer Ugn (see above, p. 327), the colour approaching more nearly 

 to brown than grey, as also the more indistinct lateral bands on the 

 cephalothorax, do nevertheless distinguish T. pulverulenta $ from the 



