KONGL. SV. VKT. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND. 13. X:0 5. 



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P. pulchra n. ceplialothorace paiillo longiore quaiu i)atollu cuin tibia 4:ti paris, 

 pubo albicaiiti densa tecto (saltein seciuuliim dovsuia et inargines); oculis niediis aii- 

 ticis vix vel pariini inajoribus (juaui lateralibus ejusdem serioi, mediis posticis paiillo 

 inajoribus quam lateralibus posticis, spatioque inajore disjunctis qiiain (|U0 distant iiiedii 

 aiitici inter se; pedibus fiisco-testaceis, coxis et feiuoribus, ut et patellis apice, tibiisque 

 basi et apice, nigris; abdornine nigro, supra fascia transvcrsa antica aliaque media, in medio 

 abrupta, notato. et praiterea raacula inagna in inedio ventre tribusque minoribus gir- 

 cuni uiainillas ornato: his vittis et inaculis oinnibus testaceo-albidis, pube alba tectis. 



— ? ad. (?) Long. GV4 milliin. 



Femina. — Cephalothorax 2'*/4 millim. loiigus, 1"* ^ millim. latus, pauUo lougior (juara tibia cuin patella 

 4:ti paris, sulco ordinario medio brevissimo; in fundo uigi'o-t'uscus, ladiis iiigris minus distinctis in lateribus, 

 pube densa cresio-albida tectus (in cxemplo singulo a me viso, verisimiliter detiito, vittas tres latas et intequales, 

 dorsualem et marginales, formanti). Sternum nigro-fuscum, albicanti-pilosum; hihiian et viaxilke quoque nigro- 

 1'usca vel picea, hie apice intus pallidte. OcuU medii seriei anticie fortiter procurvje vix vel parum majorcs 

 (juam lateralcs antici, inter se spatio pauUo majore (sed oculi diametrum non requanti) quam ab iis remoti; 

 ocnli postici spatiis snb-<equalibus, diametrum oculorum niediorum circiter lequantibus disjuncti, medii eorum 

 lateralibus posticis paullo raajores, et intervallo majore disjuncti quam quo distant medii antici inter se. Spatium 

 inter medios anticos et posticos oculi medii antici diametrum saltem dimidio majus est, vix vel parum majus 

 quam spatium inter laterales anticura et posticum. Mcuidihuhc feiuoribus anticis angustiores, in dorso leviter 

 modo convexre, fere duplo et dimidio longiores quam latiores, patellas l:mi paris longitudine fequantes. Faljii 

 nigro-fusci, parte tarsali sub-ferruginea. Pedes fusco-testacei, coxis et femoribus totis, cum apice patellaruni, 

 basi tibiarum latins, apiceque earum angustius, uigris, metatarsisque 4:ti paris infuscatis: partes pedum clariores 

 albicanti-, partes nigr«; autem nigro-pubescentes. Pedes l:mi et 2:di paris p«;ne tequales, 5-/.j millim., 3:tii 

 paris 5^'^, 4:ti 7 millim. longi; patella cum tibia 4:ti paris 2, metatarsus I-/3 millim. Femora l:mi et 2:di 

 paris aculeis supra 1 . 1, antice 1 armata, 3;tii paris supra 1.1.1, antice 1 . 1, postice 1 . 1, 4:ti paris supra 

 1.1.1, antice 1 (1 . 1?), postice 1. Tibire 4 anteriores aculeum 1 subter, in apice, habent; metatarsi anteriores 

 1 aculeum ad basin liabere videntur. Tarsi et metatarsi anteriores scopula instructi. Åbdornen nigrum, supra 

 tasciis duabus transversis tcstaceo-albis, albido-pubescentibus ornatura, altera ad marginem anticura sita, altera 

 per medium dorsi ducta, illa integra, hac in medio late abrupta, maculaque sat magna ejusdem coloris, nlbo- 

 pubescenti quoque, supra anum notatura; venter pone rimam genitalera raaculani magnara fere trapezoidem liabet, 

 mnculasque duas sat parvas ad latera raaraillarum, quee macuhie omnes tres eae quoque testaceo-albidte sunt et 

 pube alba tectcB. Vulva ex area minuta, fere inverse ovata, nitida, pallide fusca constat. — Mas ignotus. 



Patria: Africa septentrionalis. Feminam unicam hic descriptam, fortasse non plene 

 adultam, in Algeria (Biskra) a Cel. Bergsöe captam, mecum cominunicavit Cel. Schiödte. 



— P. conspicuce (L. Koch) 1866 ^) — quaj eadera ac Pytlionissa coniata Ohl. 1867 ^) 

 sive Melanophora nodurna Menge sine dubio est — hiec species valde est affinis; sed 

 in illa maculis albis ad inaniillas caret abdomen; peduin color et armatura, cet., aliter 

 quoque in P. conspicua atque in nostra aranea se habent 



') Dia Arachn.-fara. d. Drassiden, p. 149, Taf. VI, figg. 90—92. — -) Die Äran. d. Prov. Preuss., p. 98. 

 I have lately — long since these 'Descriptious' were written, and when most of the spiders here described 

 were no more in my hands — received Mr. Westring's "Bemerkungen iib. die arachnol. Abhandl. v. Dr 

 T. Thorell" etc. (Göteb. K. Vet.- o. Vitt.-Samhälles Handl., Ny Tidsföljd, Hft. 14, 1874), in whicli treatise 

 Mr WestrIiNG forms the genus Callilepis for Pijthon. viaculata (WiD.), C. Koch, and for Pijthon. variana 

 C. Koch the genus Pcecilochvoa. P. variana, which I had formerly, with C. Koch, referred to Pytlionissa 

 or Gnaphosa, on account of its anterior series of eyes being slightly curved backwards, is distinguished 

 from that genus by the förra of the maxilUie, which are very nearly such as in Drassus lapidicola, and by 

 the want of a serrulated lamina at the posterior margin of the raandibles' claw-furrow. Drassus braccatus L. 

 Koch, which in colour and in the form of the maxillte has sorae reserablance with P. variana, cannot however, 

 I believe, be referred to Paecilochroa Westr., though it forms a transitition from Drassus to that genus : 

 it has the anterior series of eyes perfectly straight, as in the typical Drassi and Prosthesimce, its maxilla; 

 are long and quite parallel, even more so than in Paec. variana, broader at the apex than in the raiddle, 

 broadly and rouudedly truncate at the extremity, slightly and broadly emarginate at the outer side. — Prosth. 



