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which is in a great measure occupied by a Y-shaped fovea, the twoanterior arms oi which are separated by a broad, thick, almost se-mi-circular, backward-pointing continuation of the fovea’s anteriorborder.

Whether the real ”Dr. lucifngus Walck.” be met with in Eng-land , is as yet uncertain. — Filistata femoralis Reuss , which Black-wall cites, is a species separate from both G. lucifuga and G. an-glica , and is undoubtedly identical with G. bicolor (Hahn). On thissubject see above, p. 191.

(Pag. 108.) Drassus pumilus [= Prosthesima electa (C. Koch) 1839],

Syn.: 1839. Melanophora electa C. Koch, Die Araehn., VI, p. 83, Tab. CC,

fig. 490.

1866. „ bicolor L. Koch , Die Araclm.-fam. d. Drass., p. 151,

Tab. VI, fig. 93—95.

1871. Drassus electus Cambr., Descr. of some Brit. Spid. , cet., p. 413.

According to Cambridge loc. cit., this species is not the sameas M. pumila C. Koch, cited by Blackwall, but is identical with M.electa C. Koch, of which he has received specimens from L. Koch. —

My specimens of M. electa (for which I am indebted to v. Kempelen)are from Austria . — Respecting Drassus bicolor Hahn, taken upunder this species by L. Kocii, see above p. 192. £

L. Koch ') has lately shown, that Meigen 1 2 ) as early as 1803 (notfirst in 1838, as most arachnologists probably suppose) gave thename Melanophora to a genus of Diptera ; and accordingly, as Me-lanophora Meig. has priority before Melanophora C. Koch, L. Kochhas very properly given the last-mentioned genus a new name, Pros-thesima L. Koch 1872.

(Pag. 111.) Drassus sericeus [-Drassus Blackwallii Thor. 1871],

Syn.: fl843. Drassus sericeus Blackw., A Catal., cet., ire Transact, of the Linn.

Soc., XIX, p. 113 (sec. Spid. of Gr. Brit.).1871. „ Blackwallii Thor., Bern , on Syn., p. 179.

The specimens of D. sericeus Blackw. sent me by Cambridge donot belong to the real D. sericeus or D. 4-punctatns (Linn.), of which

1) Apterologisches aus dem Frankischen Jura, p. 139.

2) Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung d. europ. zweifliig. Insekten ,in Illiger’s Magazin, II, p. 279. .

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