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anqh, thus forming a thick blunt hook. The inner process of the 

 tibial joint is tolerably sharp, as in E. cucurbitina. The bulbus 

 exhibits on the outer side a thin lamina, obliquely truncated and 

 directed outwards, and immediately beneath it a slightly curved, 

 sharp spur, also directed outwards. 



Judging from the males here described, both E alpica and E. 

 Westringii appear to be good species; but the females of the three 

 forms in question, especially those of E. alpica and E. Westringii, 

 are sometimes extremely difficult to distinguish. I doubt whether 

 the presence of the four yellow spots on the belly is a constant cha- 

 racteristic of these two last mentioned species: I have at least one 

 specimen (a ?, for which I am indebted to the kindness of Dr Zimmer- 

 mann), which has not these spots, but which seems to me to belong 

 either to E. alpica, or more probably to E. Westringii, with which 

 it agrees in the number of black points on the hinder part of the 

 abdomen. Whether the abdomen is a little drawn out in front, or 

 uniformly rounded, seems to be of no consequence; for the first- 

 mentioned peculiarity of form is not confined to E. Westringii, but 

 occurs also in some specimens of E. cucurbitina and in one of my 

 examples of E. alpica. 



It is possible that E. omata Blackw. (vid. sup., p. 491) is iden- 

 tical with E. Westringii; perhaps even Miranda squamosa Seidel 

 1849'), which I referred above, p. 23, with an interrogation to E. 

 cucurbitina, is a young E. Westringii, though this does not appear 

 to me probable. — E. omata Canestr. (= E. Canestrinii Thok. : vid. 

 sup., p. 491, note 2) is an entirely different species. 



Pag. 23, 491. Epeira agalena Westr., Blackw. — I have 

 received from Prof. Canestrini under the name of Epeira agalena 

 Walck. a spider from Italy (Modena), which I have also myself 

 captured at Lago Maggiore, and which is quite different from the 

 species which I, with C. Koch, Westring, Blackwall and others, 



1) "Lange des Weibcliens 1"', des Mlinnchens 8 / 4 '". — Vorderleib klein, 

 eben so wie die Fusse griinrothlich gefarbt; Hinterleib langlieh eifonuig, platt, 

 orangenartig, ohne Zeicbnung, ganz mit weissen, roth eiagefassten Schuppen 

 bedeckt, die nach den Spinnwarzen zu endlich ganz roth werden. Die meisten 

 Exemplare zeigen zwischen dem Roth noch einen grunen Schimroer. An der 

 Stelle der blattartigen Zeichnung befindet sich auf jeder Seite fiinf schwarze 

 Punkte, deren Grosse nach den Spinnwarzen zu zunimmt". — Seidei. , Uber die 

 Schles. Arten... d. Epe'irides u. d. Tberidides, in Uebers. d. Arbeiten u. Yerand. 

 d. Schles. Gesellsch. f. vaterl. Kultur, 1848, p. 110. 



