543 



Hobsonii Cambr. ') from the East Indies and Cryptotkele verrucosa 

 L. Koch s ) from Australia, and in one extinct species, Dielacata sn- 

 perba Menge 3 ), found in the Prussian Amber. That Palpimanus gib- 

 bidus is not, as was long supposed, destitute of claws on the first 

 pair of legs, but has three almost microscopically small claws there, 

 I have myself loc. cit. remarked. 



(Pag. 528.) Stalita tcenaria. 



Stalita lunar ia Schiodte 1847. 



Stalita tcenaria Schiodte, Forelobig Beretn. om UndersSg. over 

 den underjord. Fauna i Hulerne i Krain og Istr., 

 in Overs, af K Vid. Selsk. Forhandl., 1847, p. 80. 

 „ „ id., Bidrag til den underjord. Fauna, in K. Dan- 



ske Vid. Selsk. Skrift., 5 Raekke, Naturvid. og 

 mathem. Afd., Bd. II (1851), p. 22, Tab. II, fig. 3. 

 „ „ Thor., On Eur. Spid. , p. 155. 



Stalita Schifiedtei Thor. 1870. 

 Syn.: fl862. Stalita tcenaria Keysekl., Beschreib. einer neuen Spinne aus d. 



Hiihlen v. Lesina, in Verhandl. d. zool.-bot. Ge- 

 sellsch. in Wien, XII, p. 540 (2), Tab. XVI, fig. 1. 

 1870. „ SCHKEDTEI Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 156. 



Concerning S. Sehicedtei, which has been captured in the subter- 

 ranean caverns of Lesina (Dalmatia), and which differs from S. tce- 

 naria by, among other peculiarities, having 6 rudimentary eyes, see 

 Thor., loc. cit. — Simon states 4 ) that S. Schioedtei was found "a 

 l'entree de la grotte, dans une demi-obscurite", and places this cir- 

 cumstance in connexion with the presence of rudimentary eyes in the 

 species. It would have been of some interest to have learnt from 

 what source Simon has derived this statement, or whether it is a mere 

 supposition. He does not appear himself to have seen any specimens 



1) Of some new gen. and spec, of Aran., in Proceed, of the Zool. Soc, 1870, 

 p. 729 (3), PI. XL1V, fig. 1. 



2) Die Arachn. Austral , p. 240, Tab. XX, fig. 2. 



3) In Koch u. Berendt, Die im Bernstein befindl. Crust., Myriap. u. Arachn. 

 d. Vorwelt, p. 94; — Menge, Lebenszeichen vonveltlicher, in Bernstein eingeschloss. 

 Thiere, p. 9. 



4) Not. sur les Arachn. cavernicoles et hypoges, in Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de 

 France, 5 Ser., I (?) (1872), p. 217. 



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Syn.: 1847. 

 1849. 

 1870. 



