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grisens, to be altogether banished) — it is hardly worth while to 

 make any alteration in the universally received orthography '). As 

 regards names whether generic or trivial derived from the classical 

 languages, it is no doubt quite right to alter or reject, as Menge 

 does, the barbarous forms which now so often disgrace the nomen- 

 clature of zoology. In the Arachnological department this process 

 presents no serious difficulties, for this branch of zoology having 

 fortunately not yet become such an arena for dilettanteism as sundry 

 others, it is not in this case to be feared, that the wounded vanity 

 of a swarm of conceited and ignorant people will utter so vehement 

 a yell as we have in some other cases heard arise from a similar 

 cause. Most of the arachnological writers, who have occasionally 

 been guilty of carelessness in the choice of their nomenclature, would 

 undoubtedly receive willingly any proposed corrections resting upon 

 reasonable grounds. We have, f. inst., surely a right to expect, as 

 long as Latin is the received language of scientific nomenclature, 

 that that language be not handled in a manner, in which we should 

 not bear to see a living language treated, if names were to be se- 

 lected from such language. If for example English were the language 

 of nomenclature, would one tolerate such names as "jBZacfcatre Field- 

 araignee", or "Ye\\-striped Tl&im-spider"? Should we not reject the 

 former name altogether, and alter the latter to " Yellow- striped TIij- 

 cena-spidev" , supposing this to be what the name-giver meant to ex- 

 press? But such appellations as e. g Hippocovvus flavors or Upog- 

 chos (instead of Hyponchus) pallipewm's , the like of which are now 

 often suffered to pass unchallenged, are in no respect better than the 

 examples given above. — Conf. On Eur. Spid.. p. 12 — 14. 



Pag. 168. Zora spinimana Westr.; pag. 472. Hecaerge spini- 

 mana Blackw. — On Dolomedes spinimanus Duf., see above, p. 534. 



Pag. 170. Micaria fidgens Westr. — Add to the synonyms: 

 1872. Micaria fulgens Menge, Preuss. Spinn., V, p. 321, PI. 57, tab. 184. 



Pag. 171. Clubiona formicaria Sund. has been described and 

 figured by Menge loc. cit., p. 323, PI. 57, tab. 185, under the 

 name of Micaria formicaria. 



Pag. 173. Micaria pulicaria Westr.; pag. 477. Drassns mi- 

 cans Blackw.; D. nitens in. — Add to the synonyms: 



1872. Micaria pulicaria Menge, Preuss. Spinn , V, p. 325, PI. 57, tab. 186. 



l) Bnimis (brown) appears to be common in the Latin of the Middle Ages. 

 For bruneus or brunneus I know of no authority. 



