521 



1837. Epeira LOBATA Kryn., Arachnogr. Ross. dec. prima, in Bull, do la 



Soc. Imp. de Nat. de Moscou, Annee 1837, p. 77. 

 1839. Argyopes prtelautus C. Koch, Die Araclm., V, p. 36, Tab. CL1V, 



fig. 359. 



1841. Epeira sericea Walok., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 116. 

 ?1841. „ splendida in., ibid., p. 117. 

 1841. r dentata id., ibid., p. 118. 



1841. Argyopes sericea Eichw., Fauna Caspio-cauc. , m Nouv. Mem. de 

 la Soc. Imp. de Nat. de Moscou, VII, p. 241, 

 Tab. XXXVII, fig. 4. 



1866. „ „ Capello , Espec. nov. . . d'Arachn. d' Africa occid., 



in Jora. d. Sc. math., phys. e naturaes I, p. 82, 

 Est. II, figg. la— 1/ (salt, ad part.). 



1868. Argiope LORATA Tuor., Om Ar. lobata Pall., in Ofvers. af Vet.- 

 Akad. Forhandl., XXIV (1867), p. 595. 



In my paper above referred to ')) I nave shown that Ar. lobata 

 Pallas is the same species as Ar. sericea Oliv., which in fact Kry- 

 nicki, as well as Eichwald, had before me taken for granted. 

 The reason, why the identity of these two species was so long and 

 so generally unobserved by most arachnologists, is, that Pallas, when 

 he first (from specimens preserved in the "Museum Academise Petro- 

 politanse") described the species, supposed it to be identical with Pe- 

 tiver's Araneoides Cap. fasciata lutescens etc. 2 ) from the Cape of Good 

 Hope (vid. Spicil. Zool., loc. cit.), and that subsequently Fabricius, 

 in his Ent. Syst. (II, p. '407) took occasion on the strength of this 

 to state without reservation, that the Cape of Good Hope was the 

 native land of the species. Pallas had nevertheless already in 1777, 

 in fasc. 9 of the German edition of the Spicil. Zool., translated and 

 revised by himself under the title of " Naturgeschichte merkwiirdiger 

 Tldere, 9:te Sammlung" , p. 72, corrected his mistake, and indicated 

 Southern Russia (where also Nordmann 3 ), in Crimea, met with "Ar- 

 gyopes sericens") as the native country of Aranea lobata: he there 

 says: "ich babe dieselbe in den mittaglichen, warmern Gegenden an 

 der Wolga und am oberen Irtisch, und zwar schon in Maymonat voll- 

 kommen ausgewachsen angetroffen" : he further states, that it had 

 been found by Falk in Zarizyn, and by Lepechin, "who has described 



1) Translated into English under the title: On Aranea lobata (Pallas), in 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist , 4 Ser., II, p. 186. 



2) Petiver, Gazophyl. Naturae et Artis, I, Tab. XII, fig. 11; Catal. clas- 

 sicus et topicus, p. 3, No. 440. 



3) Erstes Verzeichn. d. in Finnl. u. Lappl. gefundenen Spinnen, Araneae, in 

 Bidrag t. Finlands Naturkannedom, Ethnogr. och Statist., VIII, p. 17. 



