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are: "Walck. , Araneides de France, p. 85, No. 20", and "Latr. , 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXXIV, p. 41". When we turn to the 

 passage cited in "Araneides de France", i. e. Faune Franc., Arachn., 

 we do not find (Thora. herisse) Thorn, villosus, hut (Tb. herisse) 

 Th. Mrsutus, and a reference to "Latr., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 

 Tom. XXXIV, p. 41", just as under the article Th. villosus in H. N. 

 d. Ins. Apt. But in this latter work (p. 511) we find also "Latr., 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Tom. XXXIV, p. 41", cited under Thorn, 

 claveatns Walck.; and that even here it is Latreille's "Thom. herisse", 

 that is meant, is evident from the reference to the Descr. de l'Egypte, 

 where the species, to which Walckenaer refers, is called " Thorn, 

 hirtus , Thorn, herisse? Latr." — not Thorn. Mrsutus. Having never 

 had access to the 2:nd Edition of the Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., in 

 which Latreille has described his "Thom. herisse", I am' not able 

 to decide to what species this spider belongs, and do not even know, 

 whether Latreille used scientific (Latin) names for this and sundry 

 other species, which he has there described '); for Walckenaer's (and 

 his copyists') citations leave us in ignorance even of this. With Th. 

 claveaius Walck., Latreille's spider is certainly not identical, for in 

 his Cours d'Entom., p. 534 (1831) Latreille says: "Celle qu'il 

 [Walckenaer] nomme apres moi herissi. se rapproche beaucoup d'une 

 figure de M. Savigny dans l'ouvrage sur l'Egypte {Arachn., PI. VI, 

 fig. 10)". The figure to which Latreille here refers, represents Thom. 

 Buffonii Sav. et Aud. 2 ), which, if not identical with Th. villosus 

 Walck., is most certainly closely allied to this spider. (According to 

 Cambridge 3 ) , Th. Buffonii is a separate species from Th. hirtus C. 

 Koch). But I do not think, that Latreille's "Thom. herisse" is the 

 same species as Th. villosus, partly because the description , which 

 Walckenaer in the Faune Franc, has given of Thomisus Mrsutus 4 ), 



1 ) In some cases he has certainly done so, as for example not only Walcke- 

 naer but also Dufour cite from the same work ''Mygale carminans Latr." Vid. 

 sup., p. 495, Syn. 



2) Descr. de l'Egypte, 2e Ed., XXII, p. 396, Arachn., PI. VI, fig. 10. 



3) Gen. list of the Spid. of Palestine and Syria, in Proceed, of the.Zool. 

 Soc, 1872, p. 308.,- 



4) ''Thomise herisse, Thomisus Mrsutus. (Long. 2 lig. Corps d'un vert 

 pale, herisse de poils eleves, grisatres. Abdomen arrondi; yeux petits, pales, les 

 deux lateraux posterieurs pedicules. Pattes avec des poils, qui sont portes sur 

 des tubercules spiniformes, particulierement sur les deux paires anterieures. Les 

 tubercules du cote interne du second article des deux premieres jambes sont plus 

 longs, et forment une serie de dents; tarses epineux. — Dans le midi de la France 

 et aux environs de Nice.'" — Walck., Faune Franc., Arachn., pp. 85, 86. 



