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palpus taken together; both these joints are short, the tibial joint 

 not longer than it is broad, something broader than the patellar 

 joint; both are quite simple, without any process. The male's palpus 

 in this species is therefore not "identique a celui du Imeatus", as Simon 

 (loc. cit., p. 292) states. 



(Pag. 542.) Fam. VI. ATTIDiE =[Saltigradse Latr., n.] 



Vid. Thoe., On Eur. Spid., p. 198, 203. 



In my work above cited, I have given a short (and, as is 

 there expressly stated, entirely provisional) view of the European At- 

 toid-genera then known to me, and sought somewhat more distinctly 

 to characterize the genera received by C. Koch and Simon, which 

 had been either, as is in general the case with those formed by C. 

 Koch, too vaguely defined, or, as is the case with Simon's generic 

 groups, determined by characteristics drawn exclusively from but one 

 sex, the males. In a lately published work, "Revision des Attidse" '), 

 Simon has brought forward several objections to my arrangement of 

 the family Attoida; especially with regard to the breaking up of 

 Attus (Walck.),Sim. into several smaller genera: these genera, ac- 

 cording to Simon, are not tenable when we take into consideration 

 the numerous intermediate and aberrant forms, which are found in 

 the tracts around the Mediterranean (loc. cit., p. 134 [40]). That 

 this really is the case, I have hitherto been unable to discover; but 

 as I am in possession of only a comparatively scanty store of Euro- 

 pean Attoidce, I cannot venture unreservedly to deny it. Some of 

 the species belonging to the genus yftlurops Thor. ( = Bia+ Parthenia 

 C. Koch), which is by Simon included in Attus, those namely, for 

 which C. Koch formed his genus Dia ("Groupe insignitus" Sim.), 

 ought however to be united with Yllenus Sim. 2 ), as the characteri- 

 stic, in virtue of which I had separated these two genera (the dif- 

 ferent length of the tibia of the 4 th pair in proportion to the me- 

 tatarsus), has turned out to be artificial (Conf. Sim., loc. cit., p. 153 



1) Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 4 Ser., X, p. 125. — Two parts of this 

 treatise, which is still in progress, have already been published, one (p. 125—160) 

 in 1871, the other (p. 161-230) in 1872. 



2) "Par leur corselet et par leurs membres, les Attus du sixieme groupe 

 (insignitus) ressemblent tenement aux Yllenus que, si on negligeait le caractere 

 de la patte-machoire, on serait force de les reunir (Simon, loc. cit., p. 153 [29]). 



