505 



says, that it "perhaps is only a variety of 0. Durandii", and the 

 independence of the latter is doubted by Lucas, loc. cit. If Lucas 

 is right in this instance, C. antkracina C. Koch') is probably also 

 but a variety of U. Durandii. C. Koch states however, that "C. 

 Goudotii**) has small "Dornenzahnchen" on the under side of the ma- 

 millse(?), which are wanting iu "C. antkracina 1 ', and are not men- 

 tioned in his other species. 



(Pag. 467.) Eucliarium triangulifer. 



St pa I oda triangulota (Walck.) 1802. 



Syn.: 1802. Aranea TRIANGULOSA Walck., Faune Par., II, p. 207. 

 1805. Thkkidion triangulifer id.. Tabl. d. Aran., p. 75. 

 1807. „ „ id., H. N. d. Aran., 3, 6. 



1838. Tiieridiuii venustissimum C. Koch , Die Arachn., IV, p. 114, Tab. 



CXL, fig. 322. 



1841. Theridion triangulifer Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 324. 



Among sundry specimens of this pretty species, which I captured 

 at Nice and Florence, is a d 1 ad., which sex is not mentioned either 

 by Walckenaer or C. Koch. This cf\ which agrees in colour with 

 the females , except that the dark rings on the legs are less distinct, 

 is considerably smaller than Q, its cephalothorax being scarcely 

 more than 1 millim. long. The palpi are tolerably long, and slender; 

 the femoral joint, which is scarcely thicker than the metatarsi of 

 the l:st pair at the base, is cylindrical and equal in length to the 

 tibial joint and lamina together; the patellar joint is somewhat thic- 

 ker than the femoral joint, double as long as it is broad, but little 

 thicker towards the apex; the tibial joint, which at the base is some- 

 thing slenderer than the preceding, has the apex pretty regularly 

 and strongly thickened, and drawn out obliquely on the outer side; 

 it is about as long as the patella of the first pair and about dou- 

 ble as long as the patellar joint, and as broad at the apex as that 

 joint is long. The clava is somewhat shorter than the tibial joint, 

 scarcely thicker than that joint at the apex and the femora of the 

 l:st pair; the lamina is short, rounded at the base, where it is 

 received into the apex of the tibial joint, emarginated on the outer 

 side towards the base and also slightly notched at the apex, which 



1) Die Arachn., XVI, p. 74, Tab. DLXIII, fig. 1549. 



2) Ibid., X, p. 86, Tab. CCCXLIX, fig. 813. 



