455 



1837. ZlLLA genista C. Koch, Uebers. d. Arachn. -Syst., 1, p. 5. 

 1837. „ decora id., ibid. 



1839. ,, acalypha id.. Die Arachn., VI, p. 139, Tab. CCXIII, figg. 



530, 531. 



1841. Epeira acalypha Walck.., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 50. 



1866. Miranda acalypha Misngr, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 71, PI. 11, tab. 16. 



This beautiful little Epeira, so common over a great part of 

 Europe, also belongs to the fauna of Sweden: it has been captured 

 in Skane by Mr G. A. W. Wetter of Lund. 



(Pag. 355.) Epeira albimacula [= Epeira diodia Walck. 1802]. 



Syn.: 1802. Aranea diodia Walck., Faune Par., II, 200. 

 1805. Epeira „ id., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 60. 



1834. ZlLLA albimacula C. Koch, in Herr.-Sch^sff. , Deutschl. Ins., 



124, 21, 22 (sec. Die Arachn.). 

 1839. „ „ id., Die Arachn., VI, p. 144, Tab. CCXV, 



figg. 534, 535. 



1841. Epeira diodia Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., LI, p. 55. 



1854. „ albimacula Blackw. , Supplem. to a Catal., cet., in Ann. 



and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 2 Ser., XIV, p. 33. 



Ep. albimacula (C. Koch), Blackw., of which I collected speci- 

 mens both in France and Germany, is undoubtedly identical with 

 E. diodia Walck., as has been already (p. 39) remarked, and as 

 Walckenaer himself suspected: vid. Ins. Apt., II, p. 55 (where macu- 

 lata is a slip of the pen for albimacula). This species stands on 

 the point of transition between Epeira and Meta, as I (On Eur. 

 Spid., pp. 49, 50) determined the limits of these genera: in its ge- 

 neral appearance it resembles a Meta, but in the form of the ma- 

 xillae it agrees with the genus Epeira. — Meta albimacula Westr., 

 under which C. Koch's Zilla albimacula has been erroneously cited, 

 is quite a different form, standing in close connexion with Meta 

 segmentata, and ought to be called Meta Mengii (Blackw.). See the 

 "Additions and Corrections" to p. 40, Meta albimacula Westr. 



(Pag. 357.) Epeira anthracina [= Singa pggmwa (Sund.) 1830]. 



Syn.: 1861. SlNGA Herd Westr., Aran. Suec, p. 57. 



Cet. Syn. vid. sup., p. 26 ("U. Herii Blackw." tamcn ineertum est syn.). 



The Bev. 0. P. Cambridge, to whom I had sent a fullgrown 

 Swedish cT of Singa pygmwa, has had the kindness to compare it 



