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its discovery by Sundevall, have probably been lost. It follows how- 

 ever immediately from Sundevall's description, that the species can- 

 not be identical with A. niger Walck., which he adduces, and which, 

 judging at least from a female kindly sent me by Simon under the 

 name of A. niger Walck., belongs to the genus Attus sensu strict. 

 Sundevall's A. niger on the contrary is stated to be "magnitudine et 

 statura sat affinis A. see?iico vel adhuc debilior", and accordingly most 

 probably belongs to the genus Epiblemum. (Calliethera) ; the male's 

 mandibles are however said to be "breves, ungue parvo". I dare not 

 offer any further conjecture on this very doubtful species. 



As regards A. niger Walck., see above, p. 384. — Hentz has 

 also described an Attoid under the name of Attus niger '). 



(Pag. 592.) 30. A. lapponicus [= Attus lapponicus Sund. 1833]. 



Syn.; 1833. Attus lapponicus Surd., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



1832, p. 212. 



1868. „ riciniatus Sim., Monogr. d. Attides, p. 37 (27). 

 1871. „ „ id., Eevis. d. Attidae, p. 150 (26). 



Of this species, which Westring had not seen, only one single 

 full-grown specimen has hitherto been with met in Sweden: it was 

 captured in Lappland by Professor J. W. Zetterstedt. 



A J j km. from the Finnish Lappmark (Enare) , which I received 

 from the late Prof. Al. v. Nordmann, and which certainly belongs to 

 this species 2 ), has by Simon, to whom I sent it, been recognized as 



1) Descr. and fig - , of the Aran, of the TJ. S., in Boston Jonrn. of Nat. Hist., 

 V, p. 359, PL XXI, fig. 19. 



2) A. lapponicus Sund. — Fern. jun. — Simillima A. crucigero J; differt 

 vero abdomine et pedibus anticis, cum 4:ti paris pedibus comparatis, breviovibns , 

 aculeis subter in tibiis et metatarsis anticis longioribus, pictura abdominis crucem 

 non formanti, pedibus non basi late clarius testaceis, cet. — Cephalothorax ad 

 fovmam tit in A. crucigero, impressione profunda inter oculos posticos aliisque 

 duabus pone earn /"s fere formantibus, antice tamen minus angustatus et in late- 

 ribus minus fortiter rotundatus quam in ilia specie; quadrangulo oculorum igitur 

 postice vix latiore quam antice, oculis prseterea ut in A. crucigero ordinatis om- 

 nino. Cephalothorax niger, summo margine albo-piloso ; praeterea versus latera 

 pilis albis sparsus est, in dorso quoque pilis albicantibus et, pvsesertim antice, 

 sub-cinereis sat dense munitus; facie infra oculos virescenti-glaucos seriei anticao 

 dense albo-pilosa, pilis oculos anticos medios supra cingentibus cinereis vel sub- 

 testaceis. Sternum nigrum, cum pedibus subter albido-pilosum. Mandibular pi- 

 ces; maxilla et labium picea quoque, apice pallida. Palporum pars femoralis ad 



