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middle costa, triangularly dilated behind, divides itself in front into 

 two outward-curving branches, which in front bound two large 

 rounded protuberances situated one on each side of the costa. 



(Pag. 510.) Tarentula Apulia. 



Tarentula fascii-ventris (Duf.) 1835. 



Syn.: 1758. Aranea TARANTULA Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, I, p. 622 (salt. 



ad part.). 



1790. „ „ Rossi, Fauna Etr., II, p. 132. 



1805. LYC0SA „ Walck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 11. 



1806. „ taeentula Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., I, p. 119. 



1835. „ fascii-ventris Duf. , Observ. sur la Tarentule, in Ann. d. 



Sc. Nat., 2 Ser., Zool., Ill, p. 101. 

 1837. „ tarentula Apulm Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 281. 

 1837. „ „ Goer. , Iconogr. du Regne Anim. , Araclm. , p. 



7, PI. 1, fig. 6. 



1839. „ tarantula C. Koch, Die Arachn., V, p. 112, Tab. CLXXIII, 



fig. 413. 



1850. „ (Tarantula) Apulle id., Uebers. d. Aracbn.-Syst., 5, p. 33. 

 1865. „ tarantula Bhrgsoe, Iagttag. om den Ital. Tarantel, cet., 

 in Nat.-hist. Tidskr., 3 Rsekke, III, p. 243. 



1870. Tarentula Apulle Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 191. 



1871. „ „ Sim., Aran. nouv. ou peu,connus, cet., in Mem. 



de la Soc. roy. d. Sc. de Liege, 1870, p. 80. 



In Bergs0e's above cited excellent work on the Italian Tarantula 

 and the Tarantism, is contained, not only the most complete descrip- 

 tion hitherto given of T. fascii-ventris, as well in its full-grown con- 

 dition as under the different stages of its developement, but also an 

 accurate investigation of its synonyms from the earliest period to the 

 present time, important information relative to its habits and geo- 

 graphical distribution, etc. — With Latreille and Bergsge I aggregate 

 without reservation Linnaeus' Ar. tarantula to this species; for in the 

 10:th Edit, of the Syst. Nat. — the first in which trivial names are 

 employed — Linn^us gives the name Ar. tarantula to "the spider 

 which is called Tarantula", without giving any diagnosis or descrip- 

 tion of the species. That he has among his citations taken up one 

 ("Bradl. natur. t. 24, f. 10"), which belongs to T. narhonensis (hi- 

 spanica), only shows that he supposed the Spanish Tarantula to be- 

 long to the same species as the Apulian. The diagnosis "subtus atra, 

 pedibus atro fasciatis", inserted in the 12:th Edition, and a part of 

 the description there given, may indeed seem better to suit T. nar- 



