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ARACHNIDA.
EPEIRIDES.
ZU/a alpina, sp. n., Galicia and Tyrol. L. Koch, JB. Ges. Krakau, xii. p.
Epeira cancer, Hentz. The freshly hatched young differ greatly from the
adult. A. S. Packard, jun., Am. Nat. iii. p. 616. [Rec. Am. Ent. 1870, p. 26.]
Epeira confinis, Sierra Nevada; E. camelina, Sierra Morena; E. agalenoides,
Sierra Nevada; E. illibata, Malaga, spp. nn.: E. Simon, Mem. Liege, 1870,
pp. .—E. ama-na, sp. n., Tuscany : J. Blackwall, J. L. S. x. p. 432,
pi xvi. fig. 13.—E. thyridota, sp. n., New Holland : T. Thorell, OSfv. Vet. Ak.
1870, no. 4, p. 307.—E. carbonaria, sp. n., Tyrol (closely allied to E. ceropeyia
(Walck.) : L. Koch, Zeits. Ferd. 1869, p. 168, $, p. 200, d 1 .—E. alpica, sp. n.,
Tyrol (closely allied to E. cucurbitiiia, Clevck) : L. Koch, /. c. p. 173.
Chorizoopes, g. n. Ccphalothovax short, nearly square, with the corners
rounded off; caput inordinately large, very broad, much elevated, highest
at occiput. Abdomen short, broad, nearly as high as long, largest behind,
where it is bluff and has some small subconical eminences. Eyes 8, four in
a small quadrangle in front of caput, and a pair on each side, far removed
from the centrals, and close upon the lateral margins. Legs short, moderately
strong; relative length 4,1, 2,3; tarsal claws 3, small, and with some supernumerary
opposed and pectinated ones beneath. Maxillce rather strong,
greatly bent over the labium, which is somewhat triangular, broader in tho
middle than at the base, and pointed at the apex.—C. frontalis, sp. n., Ceylon :
O. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 737, 738, pi xliv. fig. 6.
(Eta, g. n. Cephalothorax rather depressed above and rounded on the outer
margin; caput broad, flattened, and produced in front into three prominences,
all in the same plane. Eyes 8 on these prominences, four on central,
and two each on the lateral ones. Abdomen oval, pointed behind, not very
convex above, armed on the upperside with tuberculiform spines, mostly
surmounted with long and stiongish bristles. Legs rather long, slender, and
armed with long spine-like bristles; tarsal claws 3, with supernumerary
opposed pectinated ones beneath ; relative length 4,1, 2, 3. Maxillce strong,
moderately long, inclined to the labium, obliquely truncate rather on their
outer, and pointed on their inner extremities. Labium short, broad ; apex
curved. (E. spinosa, sp. n., Ceylon : Id. I. c. p. 739, pi xliv. fig. 7.
Tetvagnatha pinicola, Galicia; T. nowickii, Galicia, spp. nn., Greece, Italy,
South Tyrol and Nurnberg: L. Koch, JB. Ges. Krakau, 1870, pp.
A clear and useful differential analysis of the characters of tho European
species of Tetvagnatha, too long to be inserted here, and too complete to be
abridged, is added.
Argiope lovdii, sp. n., Abvssinia: O. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 828,
pi. 1. fig. 1
ULOBORIDES.
Mithras (Westr.) = Hyptiotes (Walck.), T. Thorell, Syn. Europ. Spid.
no. 1, p. 4.).— Velcda, Bl.,= Uloborus (Walck.) ; Veleda lineata, Bl.,= Uloborus
walckencuiius (Duges): O. P. Cambridge, Tr. L. S. xxvii. p. 415.
MlAORAMMOPIDES.
Miagiaminopcs, g. n. Cephalothorax oblong, rather broader in front than
behind ; upper surface rather fiat; fore corners of caput roundly truncate,
but no lateral compression. Eyes 4, in a sinejle row across the caput. Legs