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him, and the same is the case with his descriptions loc. cit. and in 

 Fanne Franc^, as also in H. N. d. Ins. Apt.: the descriptions of S. line- 

 aim (in the two last mentioned works) he appears to have taken 

 from Latreille. But as Walckenaer himself refers S. variegatus C. 

 Koch to his S. heterophthalmus (vid. Ins. Apt., II, p. 459, 460!), I have 

 thought it best to take up this Walckenaerian species among the sy- 

 nonyms of 0. ramosus or 5 variegatus C. Koch. — Duges ') errone- 

 ously supposes Latreille's O. variegatus and lineatus, as also Walc- 

 kenaer' s S. heterophthalmus and italicus, all to belong to one and 

 the same species; Simon takes up 2 ) 5. heterophthalmus Walck. under 

 0. lineatus Sim , which is identical with S. lineatus 0. Koch. To 

 what species O. variegatus Sim. (loc. cit, p. 290), which Simon con- 

 siders to be the same as S. variegatus G. Koch and 5. Alexandrinus 

 Sav. et Aud., belongs, I dare not attempt to decide; but as he says 

 of it: "palpe du male comme celui du precedent" (O. lineatus), it 

 would appear, that under the name of O. variegatus, he has only 

 described a form of O. lineatus. For it seems impossible, that Simon 

 should have failed to observe the wide difference in the form of the 

 palpi between the males of C. Koch's S. variegatus and 5 lineatus, 

 provided he had really met with the first-named species, the more 

 especially as he particularly mentions the accuracy, with which 

 Blackwall has figured the palpi of the male 0. lineatus. — As it 

 is impossible with certainty to say what species Latreille's Ar. he- 

 terophthalma really is, it appears to me best to drop that name: 

 to Sph. lineatus C. Koch it cannot be applied, Latreille himself hav- 

 ing taken up "Q. lineatus" as a separate species, distinct from "Ar. 

 heterophthalrna\ I therefore call Sph. lineatus C. Koch: Oxyopes li- 

 neatus Latr. For Sph. variegatus C. Koch I propose the name Ox. 

 ramosus (Panz.). The same year, in which Latreille described his 

 Ar. heterophthalma, Panzer (loc. cit.) gave the name of Ar. ramosa 

 to the spider, which Scheffer has figured in his Ic. Ins. Katisb. , 

 II, Tab. CLXXXIX, fig. vi, and which palpably represents the in 

 Germany so extensively spread S. variegatus C. Koch. How Koch 

 (Die Arachn., XIV, p. 173) came to refer that spider of Sch^f- 

 feb'cs to his Lycosa vorax, is to me inexplicable: such a notion is 

 completely contrary not only to the figure referred to, but also to 



1) Observ. sur 1. Aran., in Ann. d. Sciences Nat., 2e Ser., VI, p. 170; Cu- 

 VIEB, Begne Anim., Arachn., PI. 12, fig. 6. 



2) Sur quelques araignees d'Espagne, in Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 

 4* Ser., "VI, p. 289, 



