514 



1807. Drassus viridissimus Walck., H. N. d. Aran., 4, 9. 

 1830. „ „ id., Faune Franc., Arachn. , p. 176. 



1834. Theridion viride Keuss, Zool. Misc., Arachn., in Mus. Senckenb., 



I, p. 239 (246), Tab. XVI, fig. 11. 



D. variabilis C. Koch 1 ) is quite a different species from D. vi- 

 ridissima, to which it is aggregated by Walckenaer: vid. sup., p. 

 434, where some of the differences which these two species present, 

 are pointed out. In almost all the females of D. viridissima that I 

 have seen, the belly exhibits, behind, a rather large, heart-shaped 

 or oval, in front emarginated dark patch, which in its hinder part 

 includes the mamillse. In D. variabilis this patch is wanting. 



I strongly suspect that Drassus flavescens Walck. 1830 2 ), which 

 Walckenaer says that he "often confounded with Dr. viridissimus", is 

 identical with Diet, variabilis C. Koch. Should this be the case, 

 Walckenaer's specific name has the priority. There is probably no 

 reason to attach any great importance to the differences in the struc- 

 ture of the oral apparatus in Dr. viridissimus and Dr. flavescens, which 

 Walckenaer says that he observed: they appear rather to indicate 

 the different sexes of Diet, viridissima and D. variabilis than diffe- 

 rent species. The description of the maxillae of Dr. viridissimus ap- 

 pears to me taken from a cf of Diet, viridissima or D. variabilis, 

 the description of the same organs of Dr. flavescens agrees better 

 with those of the females of these two species. 



(Pag. 480.) Philoica cicurea. 



Tegenaria cinerea (Panz.) 1793. 



Syn.: 1793. ARANEA CINEREA Panz., Faun. Ins. Germ., 4, 23. 

 1793. „ CICUREA Fabr., Ent. Syst., LI, p. 410. 



1835. Tegenaria cicurea C. Koch, in Herr.-Sch^eff. , Deutschl. Ins., 



128, 16 (sec. Die Arachn.). 

 1841. „ id., Die Arachn., VIII, p. 40, Tab. CCLXIV, 



fig. 620. 



1850. Philoica CICUREA C. Koch, Uebers. d. Arachn. -Syst. , 5, p. 26. 



1870. Tegenaria cinerea Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 119. 



1871. Cicueina CJCUR Menge, Preuss. Spinn., IV, p. 272, PI. 50, tab. 159. 



By Panzer this spider is not called Ar. cicurea, but Ar. cine- 

 rea: in his Faun. Ins. Germ, we read loc cit. under the head of 

 'Aranea cinerea. Die aschgraue Spinne': "Aranea cinerea: abdomine 



1) Die Arachn., Ill, p. 29, Tab. LXXXI1I, fig. 187. 



2) Faune Franc., Arachn., p. 179. 



