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The male of 1). plantariw is unknown to me. — Of D. fim- 

 brlatits I have a <J ad., of which the cephalothorax is 7 millim. long 

 and 6 millim. broad; the tibia of the 4 th pair is 6 '/, millim., the 

 metatarsus + tarsus of the 1 st pair 8 3 / 4 millim. The patellar joint of 

 the palpus is half as long again as it is broad, rather thicker towards 

 the extremity. The tibial joint has at its apex, on the outer sidei 

 above, a short, coarse, somewhat downward curved process directed 

 forwards, with its blunt apex cloven into several teeth, as also below 

 this, at the lower extremity of the outer side of the joint, a longer 

 and stronger, somewhat upward-curved, pointed process, directed for- 

 wards. The lamina is somewhat longer than the two preceding 

 joints taken together; the organs of copulation are very complicated. 



The differences in the relative sizes and position of the eyes 

 in the first row, which Walckenaer (Ins. Apt., I, p. 354) affirms 

 to exist between D. fimbriatus and D. plantarius, I am not able 

 to discover, and the synononym D. plantarius Walck. is therefore 

 very uncertain. On the other hand T). ornatus Blackw. is assuredly 

 nothing more than a young D. fimbriatus. 



To TJ. fimbriatus probably belongs the spider, which Linnaeus 

 in the 2 nd Edition of his Fauna Suecica has confounded with Ly- 

 cosa palustris (Linn.) or L. tarsalis Thor. under the appellation of 

 Ar. palustris. Probably also Ar. palustris Mull. (Fauna Ins. Frid- 

 richd., p. 94) and Ar. palustris Schranck (Fauna Boica III, r, p. 

 235) belong to U. fimbriates. Vid. supr., p. 290, 300. By C. Koch 

 Linnaeus' and Schranck's Ar. palustris is erroneously referred to Pi- 

 rata piraticus (Die Arachn., XV, p. 1). 



(Pag. 536.) III. OCYALE [= Ocyale (SAv.et Aud.) 1827]. 

 See Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 194. 



(Pag. 537.) 1. 0. mirabilis [= Ocyale mirabilis (Clerck) 1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus mirabilis Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 108, PI. 5, tab. 10. 



1778. Aranea rufo-pasciata De Geer, Mem., VII, p. 269, PI. 16, figg. 1—8. 



1789. „ agraria Oliv., Encycl. Meth., IV, p. 215. 



1793. „ obscura Fabr., Ent. Syst., II, p. 419. 



1802. „ mirabilis Walck., Faune Par., II, p. 236. 



1804. „ ARCUATO-LINEATA Panz., Syst. Nomencl., p. 156. (Sch^-fe.. 



Ic. Ins. Ratisb., II, Tab. CLXXII, fig. vi). 



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