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lies into five Sub-families, Epeirince, Arcyince, Uloborince, Miagram- 

 mopince and Chorizopinae. Should any one prefer to erect these five 

 last-mentioned groups into so many separate families, as Cambridge 

 has done with, for instance, the Uloborince and Miagrammopince, 

 such a course may certainly be justified; but to carry the sub- 

 division of the Epeiroidse any further than this, is, it appears 

 to me, altogether unnecessary. — As a genus of Epeirinse new for 

 the Fauna of Europe, we may mention Peltosoma Sim. 1 ), to which 

 also Peniza europcea, described by Ausserer 2 ), appears to belong. 

 Peltosoma is very closely allied to Cyrtaraclme Thor. (Cyrtogaster 

 Keyserl.), and perhaps ought not to be separated from that genus. 



L. Koch 3 ) is inclined to separate the family Enyoidce (also pro- 

 posed by Simon 4 ) under the name of Enydes) from the Retitelarice , 

 and it cannot be denied, that the spiders of that family differ in se- 

 veral important particulars from the typical Eetitelarise, and show a 

 relationship with sundry Tnbitelarice , with the Agalenoidce for ex- 

 ample. The genus Githceron Cambr. 5 ) within this last-named fa- 

 mily seems especially to stand upon the limit of transition to the 

 Enyoidce. Cambridge, as has been already stated, refers the Enyo- 

 idce to his Agelenides; but in that case, how is this last-mentioned 

 group to be characterized? — For the singular Enyo amaranthina 

 Luc. b ), Simon 7 ) has created a separate genus, Miltia Sim., which is 

 by Simon referred to his Enydes, but by Cambridge to the Filistati- 

 des; L. Koch 9 ) is of opinion that it can hardly be considered as 

 belonging to the Enyoidce and still less to the Filistatoidce, and that 

 it probably forms a separate family, — which is also my opinion. 

 To the Enyoidce, according to the limits I assign to that family 10 ), 

 Miltia cannot belong, for the inferior mamillse are not longer than 

 the superior. Miltia is probably one of those genera of spiders, 

 which, standing on the limits between Tubitelarise and Eetitelarise 



1) Aran. nouv. ou peu connus du midi cle l'Europe, p. 47. 



2) Neue Radspinnen, p. 818 (4); Taf. V, figg. 4—7. 



3) Die Arachniden Australiens, p. 296. 



4) Sur les Aran, de la fara. d. Enydes etc. , in Revue et Mag. de Zool. , 

 XXI (1869). 



5) Spid. of Palestine and Syria, p. 273. 



6) Explor. de l'Algerie, Anim. Artie., I, p. 231, PI. XIV, fig. 7. 



7) Sur les Aran, de la fam. d. Enydes, p. 15. 



8) Spid. of Palestine and Syria, pp. 213, 219. 



9) Die Arachniden Australiens, p. 300. 



10) On Eur. Spid., p. 72; Aranes nonnulhe Novte Holl., p. 375. 



