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as it is broad and of which the almost triangular, flattened terminal 

 portion regularly tapers to the somewhat blunt apex. 



E. dalmatica Dolesch. can hardly be identical with E. drypta 

 Walck. '), as Walckenaer states the length of that species to be 

 only "l'/ 2 lig.", and says: "Point d'oviducte apparent" 2 ). Dr L. Koch 

 thinks that E. drypta is nothing more than a young, undeveloped E. 

 agalena, which indeed appears to me very probable. 



Pag. 24, 492. Epeira ceropegia Westr. , Blackw. — Add to 

 the synonyms: 



•f-1834. Epeira sclopetaria Hahn, Die Arachn., II, p. 46, Tab. LVII, fig. 131. 

 1835. Miranda ceropegia C. Kocu, in Herr.-Schjeff., Deutschl. Ins., 129, 



12, 13 (sec. Die Arachn.). 

 1839. „ „ id., Die Arachn., V, p. 51, Tab. CLVIII, fig. 370. 



1859. EPEIRA CEROPEGIA L. Koch, Beitr. z. Kenntn. d. Arachn.-fauna Tirols, 

 in Zeitschr. d. Ferdinand., 1869, p. 168 (20). 



I have above (p. 24) assumed, that Mir. ceropegia C. Koch 

 (Ep. sclopetaria Hahn) is a different species from the true E. cero- 

 pegia Walck. , Blackw., Westr., or Miranda ceropegia Menge; M. 

 ceropegia C. Koch I considered identical with the species mentioned 

 by me under the denomination E. Victoria. These views were 

 founded, partly on the smaller size of E. ceropegia Walck., cet., 

 compared with that of E. Victoria and Mir. ceropegia C. Koch, and 

 on the difference in the form of the abdomen, which I however af- 

 terwards found to vary with the animal's age etc., partly, and in- 

 deed principally, on the circumstance that the scarpus of the vulva 

 in E. Victoria — which species is of the same size as Mir. ceropegia 

 C. Koch — is not "short and conical", as, according to Menge's de- 

 scription, it is in Mir. ceropegia. Through the kindness of Prof. 

 Menge I have lately been afforded an opportunity of seeing one of 

 the two type-specimeDS of his M. ceropegia, and have found it to 

 be a young, imperfectly developed female (no doubt of M. ceropegia 

 C. Koch), which accounts for Menge's description of the vulva. Adult 

 specimens of both sexes of "M. ceropegia C. Koch" I have lately re- 

 ceived from Dr L. Koch, and by comparing them with the type- 

 specimen of Blackwall's E. ceropegia (a d"), with which I have been 

 kindly favoured by the Rev. Mr Cambridge , I have convinced myself 

 that these two species are identical. Lastly as regards Walckenaer's 



1) Aranea drypta Walck., Faune Par., II, p. 198; Epeira drypta id., Tabl. 

 d. Aran., p. 59. 



2) Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 35. 



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