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however certainly does not belong to the real 5. lineatua C. Koch, 

 but to "S. variegatus". I have myself here in Upland captured a full- 

 grown female of this latter species, erroneously taken up by myself 

 loc. cit. under the name of S lineatua <, and I have also a cf jun., 

 from the neighbourhood of Upsala. It is very improbable, that 

 the true 5. lineatus C. Koch is to be met with in Scandinavia, espe- 

 cially in Lappland, whence Westring's spider was obtained: I am 

 not sure that that species has been found in Germany north of the 

 Alps '). whereas "S. variegatus" is widely spread, not only throughout 

 southern Gemany, but also in, for instance, Prussia and Silesia. — 

 L. Koch has kindly furnished me with fullgrown specimens of both 

 sexes of 5. variegatus C. Koch and 5. lineatua id. ; I have also 

 myself captured the first-named species in Bavaria. 



What the species is, that has given rise to Latreille's descrip- 

 tion of his Ar. heteropkthalma 2 ), it is not possible to say with cer- 

 tainty; and although he himself, in Gen. Crust, et Ins., I, p. 116, 

 refers to it under his 0. variegatns, which is perhaps the same as 

 Sph. variegatus C. Koch, it is nevertheless very possible, that Ar. 

 hcterophthalma is not specifically different from O. lineatus Late. (Gen. 

 Crust, et Ins., I, p. 117). As regards this latter, I am fully per- 

 suaded that it is identical with «S. lineatus C. Koch, for its man- 

 dibles are said to be reddish yellow, with a dark line; and moreover 

 the figure given by Latkeille (loc. cit., Tab. V, fig. 5) appears to 

 me most nearly to resemble 8. lineatus C. Koch. — Walckenaer's fi- 

 gure of "S. heterophthalmus" (H. N. d. Araignees, 3, 8) is too defec- 

 tive, to be any guide in determining what species he had before 



1) Barta however takes up "<Sjj/i. lineatus C. Koch" (but not S. variegatus 

 ID.) in his Verzeichn. d. Spinnen d. nordl. Bohmens (Archiv. f. die Naturwis- 

 sensch. Landesdurchforschung v. Bohmen, Bd. I, Abtheil. IV, p. 137). 



2) T A. heterophthalme; Aranea heterophthalma. J'ai trouve cette espece dans 

 le Limousin sur une fleur seche de carline; mais ayant neglige de la mettre dans 

 de l'esprit de vin, la dessication l'a rendue meconnoissable. Je ne puis done en 

 donner qu'une idee tres-imparfaite, telle que la memoire me la fournit. Son 

 corselet et ses pattes sont d'un beau clair ou pale; son abdomen est d'un cendre 

 melange de noiratre. Son corps n'a environ que quatre ligaes de longueur; elle 

 se tient sur son cocon, qui est aplati et a une forme lenticulaire, de meme que ceux 

 des araignees crabes. — Mon ami Dargelas m'en a envoye de Bordeaux une se- 

 conde espece que j'ai donnee a Walckenaer." Latr., H. N. d. Crust, et d. Ins., 

 VII, p. 280. — It is clear from this, that, for what he has said concerning this 

 spider, Latreille has trusted to memory. The "seconde espece" that he here men- 

 tions, is his 0. lineatus, as is evident from the statement, in Gen. Crust, et Ins., 

 I, p.^117, regarding this species: "Habitat Burdigalae. Dom. Dargelas". 



