547 



Pag. 17, 419. Epe.ira lutea Westr. , Blackw. — The spider 

 which Kazoumowsky (H. N. du Jorat, I, p. 304) describes under 

 the name of Aranea lutea, is probably the young of E. diademata, Var. 

 peleg (myagria) , or of E. marmore.a } Var. pyramidata. 



Pag. 22. E. Westringii Westr. — In my collection, among 

 specimens of E. cucurbitina, I have found a few females from 

 Sweden (Satra) and Austria, which belong to the form that L. Koch 

 has described under the name of E. alpica ')• They have in fact 

 the belly in the middle blackish, with 4 yellow sjyots arranged in a 

 square and with only 1 or 2 pairs, if any at all, of black points at 

 the posterior part of the back of the abdomen. (In E. cucurbitina 

 the belly is greenish, without spots, having rarely two small yellow 

 spots behind , besides the 4 usual little yellow spots round the ma- 

 millse; moreover the abdomen has on the hinder part of the back 

 3 — 5 pairs of black points). The scapus of the vulva seems to be 

 longer than in E. cmurbitina; the tibia?, metatarsi and 1 tarsi are 

 black at the apex, at least on the hind pairs. The male of E. al- 

 pica is, according to L. Koch, principally distinguished from E. cu- 

 curbitina cf by the process on the inner side of the tibial joint of 

 the palpus being shorter and thicker than in this latter, and 

 rounded, not pointed as in E. cucurbitina cf, as also by the row of 

 spines on the under side of the thighs of the posterior legs not 

 reaching farther than to the middle, of the thigh, whereas in E. cu- 

 curbitina cf they reach quite to the apex of the thigh. (In the Swe- 

 dish specimens of this latter species this is not however always the 

 case as regards the 4:th pair; the row is often, excepting on the 

 second pair, broken off in the middle, especially in the list pair). 

 I also captured at Satra a cf ad. which seems to belong to E. al- 

 pica. In this cf the cephalothorax is destitute of dark lateral bands, 

 the inner process of the tibial joint of the palpus is shorter and 

 blunter than in E. cucurbitina cf , the almost mussle-shaped bulbus 

 has along its outer side a very large appendage , which curves down- 

 ward along the whole length of the bulbus and extends some di- 

 stance behind it: its upward directed margin is about three times as 

 long as it is broad, of almost uniform breadth, transversally striated, 

 brownish, with the outer egde turned up, black. The posterior thighs 

 have only 3 spines on the uuder side, between the base and the 

 middle. 



l) Beitrag z. Kenntn. d. Arachn. -fauna Tirols, in Zeitschr. d. Ferdinainleuins, 

 1869, p. 173 (25). 



