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the tarsal joints; and, as also the position of the eyes in Otiothops 

 is quite different from that which obtains in Palpimanus, I am still 

 of opinion that the family Otiothopoidce ought to maintain its place. 



Regarding the systematic position of the genus Eresus, opinions 

 are, as is generally known, much divided: I have, in conformity 

 with the older and more usual opinion, classed it under the Salti- 

 gradcc, whereas Simon refers it to the Epeiroidcc, and Cambridge to 

 his Dictynides. Now though it should he admitted that the affinity 

 between this genus and the Attoidce is not particularly close, yet it 

 is in no small degree indicated through the medium of Palpimanus, 

 as I have endeavoured to show (On Eur. Spid., p. 202); and I can- 

 not see that we assign to Eresus a more natural place, either by 

 placing this genus among the Orbitelariee or next to Dictyna. That 

 Palpimanus and Eresus are closely allied and cannot in a natural 

 system be widely separated from each other, appears to me undeni- 

 able; whereas it is perhaps little else than a matter of taste, whe- 

 ther we consider these genera as the types of two separate families, 

 or only of two sub-families within the same family. 



Taczanowski ') has lately described an Attoid- genus, Jelskia, 

 in which the eyes stand in four rows, the four anterior eyes form- 

 ing a square. This genus is therefore in a still higher degree than 

 Lyssomanes Hentz, typical of the sub-family which I (On Eur. Spid., 

 p. 204), in virtue of this position of the eyes, proposed to form, and 

 which may be called Jelskiina. — Several new genera must prob- 

 ably soon be formed in the extensive family of the Attoidce (conf. 

 sup., p. 204), one, for example, for the singular Salticus coccinelloi- 

 des Cambr. 2 ). The new (European) genus Hasarius Sim. has been 

 already (p. 388) mentioned. 



1) Aran, de la Guyane Francaise, in Horse Soc. Ent. Koss. , VIII, p. 128. 



2) Descr. and sketches of some new spec, of Aran., with charact. of a new 

 gen., in Ami. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 4 Ser., Ill, p. 66 (15), PI. V, tigg. 53—56. 



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