A.RACHN1DA. 163 
p. 60, pi. 4. figs. 12-20 ; S. australiensisj 1. c, p. 68, pi. 4. figs. 21-26, and S, 
maculata, 1. c. p. 59, pi. 4. figs. 27-32. 
Ariadne mellissiij Cambridge, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 634, pi. 42. fig. 2, 
St. Helena. 
Phoroncidia thwaitesii, Cambridge, Journ. Linn. Soc. x. Zool. p. 270, pi. 9, 
figs. 17-22, Ceylon. 
EPEIRIDiE. 
Thorell (European Spiders, part I.) excludes the genera 
Eresus and Deinoins from this family, but includes in it the 
genera Vlohorus {—Veleday Blackw.), Hyptiotes and Zosis 
(= Orithyiay Blackw.). He gives the following Table ^ (/. c. p. 49) 
of the European genera which he admits into his Epeiroida : — 
I. Organum inframamillare nullum ; metatarsi postici calamistro carent. 
Subf. I. Epeihin^. 
A. Maxillae breves, latitudine non vel parum longiores. 
1. Series oculorum postica, desuperne visa, fortiter procurva’*. Ce- 
plialotliorax subplanus, parte cephalica parva, buraili. 
1. Argio\te (Sav. & Aud.). 
2. Series oculorum postica, desuperne visa, subrecta vel recurva. Ce- 
plialothorax modice convexus, parte cephalica (in feminis saltern) 
sat magna. 
a. Oculi laterales postici a mediis posticis multo longius distantes 
quam hi inter se. 
* Pedes Imi paris reliquis longiores. 
a. Oculi laterales antici ab anticis mediis ssepissime evidenter, 
plerumque diraidio — duplo longius distantes quam hi 
inter se 2. Epeira (Walck.). 
/3. Oculi laterales antici ab anticis mediis non vel paullo tantum 
longius distantes quam hi inter se. 
a. Oculi laterales saepissime sat late disjunct!. Abdomen 
postice in formam coni productum vel ibi tuberculatum. 
3. Cyrtophora (Simon). 
h. Oculi laterales subcontingentes ; abdomen cute moUi 
tectum, cylindrato-ovali . . 4. Smga (Koch), 
t Pedes 4ti paris reliquis longiores. Abdomen cute duriuscula 
tectum 6. Cercidia, g. n. 
b. Oculi laterales postici non vel (in c?) parum longius a mediis 
posticis distantes quam hi inter se. 6. Zt7la (Koch). 
B. Maxillae dimidio — duplo vel ultra longiores quam latiores. 
1. Series oculorum anticorum fortiter recurva ; oculi laterales sub- 
contingentes 7. Meta (Koch). 
2. Series oculorum anticorum subrecta j oculi laterales disjunct!. 
8. Tetragnatha (Lat.). 
II. Organum inframamillare adest; metatarsi postici calamistro instructi. 
Subf. II. Uloborinjs. 
^ This Table is here slightly abridged in some of the characters. 
^ Having the convexity directed backwards ; when the convexity is for- 
2 vard, the author calls the series recurva. 
