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or other sub-orders, will perhaps hereafter make the formation of 

 one or several new sub-orders necessary. For the present the fa- 

 mily Miltioidce may perhaps best be placed among the Tubitelarice , 

 and at the head of that sub-order (accordingly between Enyoidce and 

 Urocteoidcc). — The systematic position, that the genus Dolophones 

 Walck. ought to occupy, is quite uncertain. L. Koch ') seems to be 

 of opinion that is shows more agreement with the family Enoyidce 

 than with any other. 



Blackwall 2 ) has for Gelanor Thoe. (Galena C. Koch) and the 

 new (European) genus Ctenophora Blackw. — or Ctenancala 3 ) , as I 

 propose to all it, the name Ctenophora being preoccupied *) — formed 

 the family Ctenophoridae ; but as these spiders, at least Ctenancala, 

 hardly appear to differ from the typical Theridioidac by anything 

 else than "a conspicuous comb-like appendage, consisting of a series 

 of curved spines of various lenghts symmetrically arranged, which 

 is situated on the anterior side of each tibia and metatarsus of the 

 first and second pairs of legs" 2 ), they may perhaps , as Cambridge 5 ) 

 has already remarked, be very reasonably referred to the Theridioidce, 

 quite -as well as, for instance, the genus Ero. Ctenancala seems 

 to be closely allied to Mimetus Hentz. 6 ) — Among genera of Theri- 

 dioidce lately characterized, Ulesanis L. Koch 7 ) and Cephalobares 

 Cambe. 8 ) ought to be mentioned as particularly interesting. 



Among the families classed by me under the Tubitelarice, fam. 

 Omanoidce must be suppressed. I formed that family for a spider de- 

 scribed by Blackwall under the name CEcobius navus, the characters 

 of which deviated so largely from what I supposed myself to have 

 observed in a couple of species of the genus CEcobius, that I had no 

 other choice than to separate it from that family and, on the ground 

 of these characters, form for it a separate genus and even a pecu- 



1) Die Arachniden Australiens , p. 298. 



2) Notes on a collection of Spiders made in Sicily, by E. Peeceval Weight, 

 with a list of the spec, and descr. of a new gen., by J. Blackwall, in Ann. 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 4 Ser., V, p. 401 (11). 



3) Krels, comb; dyxdX?], arm. 



4) Gtenophora Meig. [Dipt.] 1803. 



5) Spiders of Palestine and Syria, p. 287. 



6) On North Anier. Spid. , in the Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts, XXI, 

 p. 104; Descr. and fig. of the Aran, of the U. S., in Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist., 

 VI, p. 31. 



7) Die Arachniden Australiens, p. 242. 



8) On some new gen. and spec, of Aran., p. 734. 



