360 



(Pag. 545.) 1. A. histrionicus [= Epiblemum scenicum (Clerck) 



1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus scenicus Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 117, PI. 5, tab. 13 (salt. 



ad part.) 



1758. Aranea SCENICA Linn. , Syst. Nat. , Ed. 10, I, p. 623 (salt, adpart.) 

 1778. „ albo-fasciata De Geer, Mem., VII, p. 287 (salt, ad part.:) 



PI. 17, fig. 8. 



1805. Attus scenicus Walck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 24 (ad part). 



1806. Salticus scenicus Latr., Gen. Crust, etlns., I, p. 123 (salt, adpart.). 

 1825. Attus „ Walck., Faune Franc., Arachn., p. 44 (adpart.). 

 182... „ „ Hahn, Monogr. Aran., 4, PI. 1, figg. A, B. 

 1831. Salticus „ id., Die Arachn. I, p. 57, Tab. XV, figg. 43, 44 



(salt, ad part.). 



91832. Epiblemum faustum Hentz, On North Amer. Spid., in the Amer. 



Journ. of Science and Arts, XXI, p. 108. 

 1833. Attus scenicus Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskrifn., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1832, p. 202. 



1837. Calliethera scenica C. Koch, Uebers. d. Araehn.-Syst., 1, p. 31. 

 1837. „ HISTRIONICA id., ibid. 



1846. „ „ id., Die Arachniden, XIH, p. 42, Tab. 



CCCCXXXIX, figg. 1110, 1111. 

 1846. „ scenica id., ibid., p. 37, Tab. CCCCXXXIX, figg. 



1106, 1107. 



91846. Epiblemum faustum Hentz, Descr. and fig. of the Aran, of the 



U. S., in Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist., V, p. 

 367, PI. XXn, fig. 17. 

 1856. Calliethera histrionica Thor. , Bee. crit. Aran. , p. 68. 

 1856. „ scenica id., ibid, (ad part.). 



1861. Salticus scenicus Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 47, PI. HI, 



fig. 24. 



1869. Callietherus histrionicus Sim., Monogr. d. Att. d'Eur., p. 650 (184). 



1870. Epiblemum histrionicum Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 211. 



It appears that very considerable confusion prevails with re- 

 spect to the synonyms of this and the allied species. C. Koch, who 

 first separated "Cattieth. histrionica? from "C. scenica", says of it (Die 

 Arachn., XIII, p. 42), that it is "perhaps only a variety of the latter", 

 and, after a careful examination of his descriptions aud figures, I 

 must confess that I think he is right in this, though here in Sweden 

 "C. histrionica' is the commoner or chief form, and "C. scenica" the 

 less usual, and consequently a variety of the other. With this variety, 

 or "C sce?dca\ I, in Rec. crit., confounded Attus lineolatus Sund. 

 (= A. scenicus Var. a Westr.) — which I now consider identical with 



