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its discovery by Sundevall, have probably been lost. It follows how-ever immediately from Sundevall- s description, that the species can-not be identical with A. niger Walck., which he adduces, and which,judging at least from a female kindly sent me by Simon under thename of A. niger Walck., belongs to the genus Attus sensu strict.Sundevall’s A. niger on the contrary is stated to be "magnitudine etstatura sat affinis A. semieo vel adhuc debilior”, and accordingly mostprobably belongs to the genus Epiblemum (Calliethera) ; the male’smandibles are however said to be ’’breves, ungue parvo”. I dare notoffer any further conjecture on this very doubtful species.

As regards A. niger Walck., see above, p. 384. — Hentz hasalso described an Attoid under the name of Attus niger ').

(Pag. 592.) 30. A. lapponicus [= Attus lappnnicus Sund. 1833],

Syn.: 1833. Attus lah'ONICUS Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskv., in Vet.-Akad. Handl.

1832, p. 212.

1868. „ KICINIATUS Sim., Monogr. d. Attides, p. 37 (27).

1871. „ „ id., Kevis. d. Attidse, p. 150 (26).

Of this species, which Westeins had not seen, only one singlefull-grown specimen has hitherto been with met in Sweden: it wascaptured in Lappland by Professor J. W. Zettekstedt.

A % jun. from the Finnish Lappmark (Enare), which I receivedfrom the late Prof. Al. v. Nokdmann, and which certainly belongs tothis species 1 2 ), has by Simon , to whom I sent it, been recognized as

1) Descr. and fig. of the Aran, of the U. S., in Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist.,V, p. 359, Pl. XXI, fig. 19.

2 ) A. lapponicus Sund. — Fem. jun. — Simillima A. crucigero J; differtvero abdomine et pedibus anticis, cum 4:ti paris pedibus comparatis, brevioribus,aculeis subter in tibiis et metatarsis anticis longioribus, pietura abdominis crucemnon formanti, pedibus non basi late clarius testaceis, cet. — Cephalothorax adformam ut in A. crucigero, iinpressione profunda inter oculos posticos aliisqueduabus pone earn /\ fere formantibus, antice tamen minus angustatus et in late-ribus minus fortiter rotundatus quam in ilia specie; quadrangulo oculorum igiturpostice vix latiore quam antice, oculis praterea ut in A. crucigero ordinatis om-nino. Cephalothorax niger, summo margine albo-piloso; prseterea versus laterapilis albis sparsus est, in dorso quoque pilis albicantibus et, pnesertim antice,sub-cinereis sat dense munitus; facie infra oculos virescenti-glaucos seriei antic®dense albo-pilosa, pilis oculos anticos medios supra cingentibus cinereis vel sub-testaceis. Sternum nigrum, cum pedibus subter albido-pilosuin. Mandibultc pi-ce®; maxillm et labium picea quoque, apice pallida. Palpormn pars femoralis ad