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(Pag. 583.) 22. A. ciliereus [= Atlus cinereus "Westr. 1861]. 



Syn.: ?1833. Attus pobescens Var. § Susd., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. 



Handl. 1832, p. 207. 

 1872. „ helyeolus Sim., Revis. de Attidse, p. 164 (40) (saltern $). 



As Walckenaer had already in 1837, in his H. N. d. Ins. Apt., 

 applied the name cinereus to another Attoid, Simon loc. cit. has given 

 Westring's A. cinereus a new denomination, A. helveohis; but Walcke- 

 naer's A. cinereus probably does not belong to the genus Attus sensu 

 strict., and it would therefore be best to allow Westring's spider to 

 retain for the present its original name. Vid. sup., p. 392, note. 



Prof. Stal has lately favoured me with a (dried) specimen of 

 the female of A. cinereus Westr., which sex was unknown to We- 

 string; the specimen was captured in West-Bothnia by the late Prof. 

 Boheman. In this female the cephalothorax on the sides and the 

 posterior declivity is covered with greyish white hair: the remaining 

 parts are covered with pale greyish red hair, mixed with greyish 

 white, and is moreover besprinkled with longer, black hairs; the 

 greyish white hair also forms some small spots, of which one of an 

 oblong form situated in the midst of the posterior part of the eye- 

 quadrangle seems the most conspicuous. The clypeus is covered with 

 greyish white hair, mixed with some reddish hairs at the sides, 

 downwards; the hair-rings of the anterior centre eyes are reddish 

 above, greyish white below. The legs are greyish yellow, thickly 

 clad with greyish white hair, and marked with tolerably dark rings 

 and spots: the thighs are dark at the apex, as are also the tibiifi, 

 though but slightly, and the other joints also show signs of dark 

 rings or spots. The back of the abdomen is thickly covered with 

 pale greyish red hair sparingly mixed with greyish white: the grey- 

 ish white hair forms four rounded spots, nearly forming a square 

 in the midst of the back; in the anterior margin of each spot 

 is a little depressed black point. On the sides and underneath the 

 abdomen is greyish white. — The females reckoned by Simon to this 

 species, and which have legs and palpi "entierement d'un blanc te- 

 stace, sans aucun anneau", are from the south of France; the only 

 hitherto found male specimen, which has served as type both for 

 Westring's and Simon's description, was caught at Halmstad in Hal- 

 land by Dr F. E. von Stdow, and is preserved in my collection. 



In the male the patellar joint of the palpi, as also the femoral 

 joint at its apex, is thickly covered above with white hairs; the 

 tibial joint on the contrary is white-haired only on the outer side: 



