528 



1839. Lycosa PBjEGEANDIS C. Koch, Die Arachn., V, p. 114, Tab. 



CLXXIII, fig. 414. 

 1848. „ (Tarantula) narbonnensis id., ibid., XIV, p. 145, Tab. 



CCCGXCIII, fig. 1375. 

 1850. „ „ pkjEGRANdis id., Uebers. d. Avacbn.-Syst. , 



5, p. 33. 



1850. „ „ NARBONNENSIS ID., ibid. 



1870. Tarentula melanogaster Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 192. 



Although this spicier is already in 1805 mentioned by Walcke- 

 naer in his Tabl. d. Aran., p. 12, under the name of Lyc. tar. nar- 

 bonensis, Latreille ought nevertheless to be considered as the au- 

 thority for the name; for Walckenaer in the work mentioned has 

 not in any way characterized the species, which Latreille was the 

 first to do in his Gen. Crust, et Ins., in the following words: "Lyc. 

 tar. narbonensis Walck. minor [quam L. tarentula], abdomine infra 

 atro, postice lsete croceo". That this is the species which Dorthes 

 meant loc. cit. by his "Ar. tarantula", which according to him is 

 common at Montpellier, cannot be doubted, although he has given no 

 description of it. L. tar. hispanica Walck. is undoubtedly the same 

 species as L. narbonensis or melanogaster Latr. ; nor can I believe 

 that the Greek L. praegrandis C. Koch — which is probably iden- 

 tical with L. narbonensis Brtjlle ') , — is a different species from 

 T. narbonensis. Kespecting L. (T.) hellenica C. Koch 2 ) I dare not offer 

 an opinion. — L. melanogaster Haen 3 ), which Walckenaer takes up 

 under both L. tar. narbonensis and L. captans (Ins. Apt., I, p. 306), 

 is an entirely different and far smaller spider ; it is identical with T. 

 fabrilis (Clerck): vid. sup., p. 310; conf. also C. Koch, Die Arachn., 

 XIV, p. 147, where Koch, who had seen Hahn's type-specimen, says 

 that it belongs to Ar. fabrilis Clerck or Lye. fabrilis Sond. (C. Koch 

 confounded T. fabrilis (Clerck) with T. inquilina (id.) under the name 

 of L. (T.) fabrilis). — On L. captans Walck., vid. sup., pp. 314, 316. 



Of T. narbonensis (Latr.) I possess only two full-grown specimens, 

 the one from Spain, kindly furnished to me by Mr Simon under the 

 name of L. narbonensis Walck., the other from Oran (Algeria). In 

 both specimens the thighs on the under side are of a uniform 

 brownish grey or brownish yellow colour, with only a very small, 



1) Explor. scient. de^loree, Zool. , Anim. Artie, p. 54. 



2) Die Arachn., Ill, p. 24, Tab. LXXXI, fig. 181; V, p. 104, Tab. CLXII, 

 fig. 409. 



3) Die Arachn., I, p. 102, Tab. XXVI, fig. 76. 



