504 



1843. Clotho steixata C. Koch, ibid., p. 88, Tab. CCCL, fig. 815. 

 1847. „ Durandii Luc, Explor. d. l'Alger., Anim. Artie, I, p. 229. 

 1870. Ueoctea Durandu Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 112. 



In the specimens of this species that I have seen — all of which 

 are females, from Fiume and Dalmatia, — the colour of the cepha- 

 lothorax and legs varies from black or piceous to rusty or yellowish 

 brown (which seems always to be the colour in young specimens); 

 in the latter case the cephalothorax is sometimes darker at the bor- 

 ders. The distance of the anterior centre eyes from each other is 

 visibly less than their diameter; they are considerably larger than the 

 anterior lateral eyes, which in their turn are somewhat larger than 

 the posterior eyes, of which the lateral are a trifle smaller than the 

 centre eyes. The distance between the anterior and posterior centre eyes 

 is somewhat less than the greater diameter of the latter, fully as great 

 as that between the two anterior centre e3 T es, and something greater 

 than that between the anterior centre and lateral eyes; and this last- 

 mentioned distance is again somewhat greater than that between the 

 two lateral eyes of the same side; the posterior centre and lateral 

 eyes are almost contiguous. The abdomen is black or blackish 

 brown; in some specimens the two foremost yellow spots are con- 

 siderably larger than the other three, in others they are of the same 

 size as, or even smaller than these. The four impressed points in 

 the midst of the back are of the abdomen's dark ground-colour, but 

 are sometimes surrounded by a faint, yellowish ring. The cephalo- 

 thorax in the largest of my specimens is 5'/ 3 millim. broad, the l:st 

 pair of legs 15'/ 2 millim. long. 



I have a monstrous specimen of this species, in which the two 

 anterior centre eyes are entirely absent, and the remaining six eyes 

 much smaller than in normal specimens. 



C. Koch's Clotho guttata and C. stellata are beyond a doubt one 

 and the same species, and identical with U. Durandii; whether C. 

 cycacea C. Koch ') and C. Goudotii Walck. 2 ) are specifically different 

 from this last, is at the least doubtful. Of the former Koch himself 



1) Die Arachn, X, p. 85, Tab. CCCXLIX, fig. 812. 



2) H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 633. — Latreille has not, as, from f. inst. 

 C. Koch's citations, one might be led to suppose, given to this species the name 

 C. Goudotii: he only says, speaking of G. Durandii: ''Cette espece est repan- 

 due dans plusieurs contrees de l'Europe meridionale. J'en connais une seconde 

 qui est entierement noire et sans taches, et qui a ete apporte'e de Tauger par 

 M. Goudot jeune". (Latr., Cours d'Entom., p. 520). — On this short notice 

 Walckenaer has formed the species C. Goudotii. 



