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1825, common in many parts of Germany, and to which C. Koch, 

 and after him Simon, have given quite erroneously the Linnsean name 

 tmncorwu, has never as yet been found in Sweden, unless the fe- 

 male specimen of A. utrovirens "solito major, long, thoracis 2 '/ 2 mil- 

 lim.", which Sundevall once found in Skane (see loc. cit. , p. 211), 

 possibly may have been a H. muscorum £• — Of LI. oupreus Sim. I 

 have a cf and a ¥ ad. from Paris, with which Simon himself oblig- 

 ingly favoured me; I have also specimens of both sexes of //. Jiavi- 

 pes, which this author has identified as //. Jiavipes Sim. 



In cupreus c? the femoral joint of the palpus is at about 

 the middle of the inner side strongly and broadly depressed, and 

 here, on the under side, drawn out into a coarse, compressed, 

 downward- and slightly outward-pointing tooth, the single apex of 

 which is curved backward and inward. The patellar joint, viewed 

 from above, is at least as long as it is broad, the tibial joint is 

 more than double as short as, and somewhat narrower than, the pa- 

 tellar joint, and twice as broad as it is long; it has on the outer 

 side a fine, pretty long, slightly --curved spine directed outwards 

 and somewhat downwards and forwards; at the extremity of the un- 

 der side, outwards, the tibial joint further-more exhibits a fine pro- 

 cess or spine, which at the apex is somewhat bent backwards. The 

 lamina is considerably longer than the two joints just mentioned put 

 together, about 2'/ 2 times as long as it is broad at the base, re- 

 gularly and gently tapering towards the rounded extremity. The 

 bulbus, which is considerably shorter than the lamina, is irregularly 

 triangular, with the angles rounded off, and convex on the under 

 side; with the inmost of these angles, which is very turgid, it 

 reaches far beyond the inner side of the lamina, which therefore does 

 not cover this part of the bulbus. Near the angle which forms its 

 apex, the bulbus is armed with a tolerably long, somewhat spirally 

 curved spine; behind, at the upper part of the base, it exhibits 

 a short tooth pointing backwards. — In the females of this species I 

 have observed a very remarkable peculiarity. In most of the female 

 specimens taken in company with males, the palpi of which I have 

 now described, the area near the rima genitalis, which the vulva 

 ought to occupy, is covered with a hard, brown or red, shining sub- 

 stance, forming one, or more frequently two, very considerable, diffe- 

 rently sized protuberances, one of which is frequently extended so 

 as to form a back-turned, conical or cylindrical process (as is the 

 case for example in the V from Paris, which I received from Simon). 



