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fore preferred to distinguish the species by the equally old and 

 perfectly certain specific name of depi'essus 



Dendryphantus bimaculatus C. Koch (Die Arachn., XIII, p. 91, 

 Tab CCCCXLV1I, fig. 1153), which Walckenaer (Ins. Apt., IV, p. 

 412) classes under both his "A. annulipes" and "A. bicolo?", does not 

 belong to the species now before us, nor can I believe that it is the 

 same as A.bicolor either, which, according to Simon (Revis. d. Attidse, 

 p. 138 (14), is the male of A. xanjUwpramma (Latr.), Walck. 



A. heteropldhalmus Westr. is a species belonging to the genus 

 Ballus entirely different from B. depressus (Walck.): it is the female to 

 the male which Simon has described under the name Attus oenescens '). 

 In Westring's A. heteropldhalmus (the female) the palpi are of uni- 

 form colour, brownish yellow, as also the legs, which are of a 

 uniform reddish or brownish yellow tint, excepting the femora and 

 and tibiae of the 1 st pair, which are black; the thighs of this pair 

 are considerably thicker than those of the succeeding pairs; the tibia, 

 which, like the patella, is also thicker, is almost cylindrical, not egg- 

 shaped, nor tapering at the end, as w B. depressus The eyes of the 

 second row are little, not much, nearer to the anterior lateral eyes than 

 to the hindermost eyes. Of this species I have only seen two Swedish, 

 pretty much damaged, dried female specimens, of which the one 

 was the type for Westring's description; the other (sent to me from 

 Wermland by Baron Dr C. Cederstrom) shows some traces of 

 gold-glancing scales on the abdomen, which seem to have formed 

 an arc in front, near the cephalothorax, an oblique line on each 

 side somewhat before the middle, and a spot on each side towards 

 the anus. In a male specimen of "A. oenescens", which Simon kindly 

 lent me to compare, the under side of the legs of the 1 st pair is densely 

 covered with thick, long, black hair, and only the apical half of their 

 tibiae, together with the thighs, of a black colour. 



(Pag. 554.) *6. A. vulpinus [= Hallux (?) vulpinus (Westr.) 1851] 

 Syn.: 1851. Attus vulpinus Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 56. 



A species unknown to me, the type-specimen of which has 

 probably been lost: Professor Sundevall has at my request, but in 

 vain, sought through his collection, in which is was originally pre- 

 served. As Westring says of this spider: "Thoracis forma ut in A. 

 brevipede", it is probable that, like that species, it belongs to the 

 genus Ballus (or perhaps Marpessa?), and can therefore hardly be 



1) Monogr. d. Attides, p. 628 (162). 



