552 



E. ceropegia, it seems probable, that he, like Westring and Menge, 

 had seen only imperfectly developed specimens of the species. Mr 

 Simon informs me, that he has compared specimens of both sexes of 

 E. ceropegia from the neighbourhood of Paris with specimens from 

 Germany, which he had received from Dr L. Koch under that name, 

 and that he could not discover any difference between them. It 

 would therefore seem to be placed beyond a doubt, that M. cero- 

 pegia C. Koch is nothing else than a synonym to E. ceropegia 

 Walce. , CET. 



As to E. Victoria Thoe. on the contrary, its vulva is so diffe- 

 rent from that of E. ceropegia, that I cannot believe that it is the 

 same species 1 ): to judge from that organ, E. Victoria is more nearly 

 allied to E. Jiirsuta Hahn 2 ) or Miranda hirsuta C. Koch 3 ) — which is 

 probably identical with E. Armicla Sav. et Aud. 1825 — 27") — than to 

 E. ceropegia, as has already (p. 25) been intimated ; but in other re- 

 spects it is so similar to E. ceropegia, that I am quite .unable to 

 distinguish undeveloped specimens of these two forms. 



The female of E. Armicla Sav. et Aud. or E. hirsuta Hahn 

 very closely resembles E. ceropegia and E. Victoria, with which it 

 may easily be confounded. In E. ceropegia and in E. Victoria the 

 thighs of the first three pairs have a dark spot or stripe on the 

 under side, and are also usually provided on the upper side with 

 black spots or bands (they are not entirely or almost entirely black, 

 as is the case in E. carbonaria L. Koch 5 )). In E. Armida or hirsuta 

 all the thighs are on the under side of completely uniform colour, 

 brownish yellow: above they are, to say the most, slightly infuscated at 

 the extreme apex. In E. Armida {hirsuta) the leaf-like pattern on 

 the back of the abdomen is narrower, especially behind, than in E. 

 Victoria and E. ceropegia, and the broad blackish band which 

 borders it, is everywhere distinct, and is, in the hinder part of -the 

 field, at the inner border only very slightly undulated, sometimes 

 almost straight. The belly in E. Armida has a broad yellow 



1) L. Koch, to whom I had sent the type-specimens of E. Victoria (two 

 adult females from Dalmatia), tells me that among the numerous examples of 

 E. ceropegia iu his cabinet, there is not a single one that in the form of the 

 vulva resembles E. Victoria. 



2) Die Arachn., I, p. 13, Tab. Ill, fig. 9. 



3) Ibid., XVI, p. 75, Tab. DLXIII, fig. 1550. 



4) Descr. de l'Egypte, 2e Ed., XXII, p. 337, Arachn., PI. II, fig. 8. 



5) Beitr. z. Kenntn. d. Arachn. -fauna Tirols, in Zeitschr. d. Ferdinandeums, 

 1869, p. 168 (20). 



