494 



HI. 



SYNONYMICAL EEMAEKS 

 ON SOME SPIDERS INCLUDED IN SIMON'S 

 'CATALOGUE SYNONYMIQUE DES ARANEIDES D 'EUROPE' '). 



Most of the species known to me, that are received into Si- 

 mon's 'Catalogue Synonymique', have been already treated of in the 

 foregoing sections of this treatise, and there is in general the less 

 reason to return to them here, as it is easy by means of the index 

 to this work to turn to the passages where I have expressed my 

 opinions regarding them. As I do not possess sufficient materials 

 for a satisfactory discussion of more than a part of the remaining 

 species in Simon's Catalogue, I shall here confine myself to some 

 remarks on a small number among them, which are either known 

 more generally, or for some reason or other appear to me to be 

 of more general interest. Simon's catalogue is only a list of names, 

 without descriptions, and his appellations therefore could not be 

 taken up among the synonyms, since it does not any more than 

 other mere lists of names offer any guarantee that the author really 

 understands by a given specific name the species, to which such name 

 rightly belongs, or which he cites. 



(Pag. 452.) Radius quadrimaculatus. 



Spermophora senoculata (Dijges) 1836. 



Syn.: 1836. Pholcus senoculatus Duges, Observ. sur 1, Aran., in Ann. d. Scien- 

 ces Nat., VI, p. 160. 

 1836. „ sex-OCULATUS id. , in Coy., Eegne Anim., Arachn., Nouv. 



[3e] Ed., Arachn., PI. 9, fig. 7. 

 1847. „ QUADRI-PUNCTATUS Luc, Explor. de 1' Alger., Anim. Artie, 



I, p. 239, PI. 15, fig. 2. 

 1847. EACHUS „ Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., IV, p. 459. 



i) Simon, H. N. d. Araignees, pp. 451—528. — As Simon in his subsequent 

 writings hardly ever refers to this work, but seems to wish to leave it to obli- 

 vion, I consider myself bound not to enter upon any criticisms of his lists of 

 synonyms there given , as I had formerly intended (Conf. On Eur. Spid. , p. 38). 

 How little these lists are to be trusted, is easily seen f. inst. by comparing that 

 part of Simon's Catalogue, which treats of the Attoidce, with his subsequent works 

 on that family. 



