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which is in a great measure occupied by a Y-shaped fovea , the two 

 anterior arms of which are separated by a broad, thick, almost se- 

 mi-circular, backward-pointing continuation of the fovea's anterior 

 border. 



Whether the real "Dr. lucifugus Walck." be met with in Eng- 

 land , is as yet uncertain. — Filistata femoralis Eeuss , which Black- 

 wall cites, is a species separate from both G. lucifuga and G. an- 

 glica, and is undoubtedly identical with G. Ucolor (Hahn). On this 

 subject see above, p. 191. 



(Pag. 108.) Drassus pumilus [= Prosthesima electa (C. Koch) 1839]. 



Syn.: 1839. Melanophoba electa C. Koch, Die Arachn. , VI, p. 83, Tab. CC, 



fig. 490. 



1866. „ BICOLOR L. Koch , Die Arachn.-fam. d. Drass., p. 151, 



Tab. VI, fig. 93—95. 

 1871. DEASSUS electus Cambr., Descr. of some Brit. Spid. , cet., p. 413. 



According to Cambeidge loc. cit. , this species is not the same 

 as M. pumila C. Koch, cited by Blackwall, but is identical with M. 

 electa C. Koch, of which he has received specimens from L. Koch. — 

 My specimens of M. electa (for which I am indebted to v. Kehpelen) 

 are from Austria. — Eespecting Drassus Ucolor Hahn, taken up 

 under this species by L. Koch, see above p. 192. 



L. Koch ') has lately shown, that Meigen 2 ) as early as 1803 (not 

 first in 1838, as most arachnologists probably suppose) gave the 

 name Melanophora to a genus of Diptera; and accordingly, as Me- 

 lanophora Meig. has priority before Melanophora C Koch, L. Koch 

 has very properly given the last- mentioned genus a new name, Pros- 

 thesima L. Koch 1872. 



(Pag. 111.) Drassus sericeilS [^Drassus niackiiallU Thoe. 1871]. 



Syn.: |1843. Dbassus seeiceus Blackw., A Catal., cet., in Transact, of the Linn. 



Soc, XIX,' p. 113 (sec. Spid. of Gr. Brit.). 

 1871. „ Blackwallii Thor., Bern, on Syn., p. 179. 



The specimens of D. sericeus Blackw. sent me by Cambeidge do 

 not belong to the real D. sericeus or D. 4-punctatus (Linn.), of which 



1) Apterologisches aus dera Frankischen Jura, p. 139. 



2) Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung d. europ. zweifliig. Insekten, 

 in Illigee's Magazin, LI, p. 279. 



