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of "C. kistrionica". — The species ought of course to resume its ear- 

 liest specific name, and accordingly be called Epibl. scenicum. 



Simon in his description of his Callieth. kistrionicus mentions 

 nothing, that indicates that he had seen any such varieties as those 

 just described by me and noticed by Westring (C. scenica C. Koch); 

 his description is suitable to "C. kistrionica" only. The same is the 

 case with Blackwall's description and figure of that author's Sahicus 

 scenicus. Callietkerus scenicus Sim. on the other hand, like Westring's 

 A. scenicus Var. a, is the same as Epiblemum cingulatum N. Like 

 Cambridge, L. Koch considers this spider to be the same as C. scenica 

 C. Koch, as I see from specimens determined by these arachnologists; 

 of E. tenerum, L. Koch has sent me specimens under the name of 

 "C zebranea". Unhappily C. Koch's type-specimens are no more in 

 existence. As this author gives no description of the characteristic parts 

 of the male's palpi in the species before us, I think it is best in 

 identifying them chiefly to take into account his descriptions and figures 

 of the females, of which his C. tenera 2 (fig. 1113) is perfectly similar 

 to E. tenerum n., whereas the figure he gives of C. zebranea % (fig. 

 1109) closely resembles E. cingulatum^. The female of "C zebranea" 

 is according to C. Koch larger than "C. tenera As to the males, 

 it seems on the other hand very probable, judging from the alleged 

 size of "C. zebranea c?" and "C. tenera tf", that the former is the 

 male to "C. tenera 2" and the latter to "C. zebranea but as C. 

 zebranea was first described in C. Koch's Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 

 1, p. 31, this species ought in the first place to be determined after 

 the diagnosis given in that work, and there C. Koch says of it, 

 that it is "large", just as he says of "C. kistrionica", but which cer- 

 tainly cannot be said of E. tenerum n. 



As regards G zebraneus Sim , the female probably belongs to 

 E. tenerum n. , as Simon says he has received it from Dr L. Koch 

 under the name of C. zebranea: the male on the contrary, or Sal- 

 ticus affinitatus Cambr., ') is another species: Mr Cambridge, to whom 

 I had sent a cf of E tenerum, writes me that S. affinitatus is dif- 

 ferent from , though very nearly allied to this latter species : the pro- 

 cess of the tibial joint of the male's palpus is curved, less robust 

 and more pointed than in E. tenerum, but less pointed than in n C. 

 kistrionica". 



l) Descr. of some Brit. Spid. etc., in Transact, of the Linn. Soc, XXVII, 

 p. 399. 



