24 F. P. SMITH ON THE BRITISH SPIDERS OF THE GENUS LYCOSA. 



1881. Lycosa amentata, Camb., Spid. Dorset, p. 370. 

 1892. ,, ,, Kulcz., Ar. Hung., vol. i., p. 58, tab. ii., 



%. 8. 



Length : male, 5 — 6 mm. ; female, 6 — 8 mm. 



Thoracic bands yellowish brown ; central band broad behind 

 the eyes, then sharply constricted, then abruptly widening again, 

 and finally tapering off to the posterior extremity of the thorax ; 

 lateral bands narrow, much broken. Sternum with a narrow, 

 pale band on its fore-part in both sexes. Legs strongly annu- 

 lated in the female, in all the joints except the tarsi ; in the male 

 the femora are strongly suffused with black and sometimes the 

 tibiae are obscurely annulated. Palpus of male densely clothed 

 with coarse black hair. 



This is one of our commonest spiders, and occurs in waste 

 ground, amongst rank grass by the sides of roads, on piles of 

 stones and rubbish heaps overgrown with herbage, and in many 

 similar situations throughout the British Isles. On the Continent 

 it has an enormous range, from France to Russia, and from 

 Iceland to Southern Italy. It also occurs in Greenland. 



Lycosa nigriceps, Thor., 1856. 



(PI. 3, Figs. 11, a, b.) 



1837. Lycosa monticola, Walck., Ins. Apt., i., p. 328 (ad partem) 



(nom. praeoc). 

 1848. Pardosa „ C. L. Koch, Die Arach., vol. xv., p. 42 



(ad partem), tab. Dxv., fig. 1445 (nom. praeoc). 

 1851. Lycosa sacciyera, Westr., Goteb. Handl., p. 52 (nom. praeoc?}. 

 1856. ,, ,, Thor., Bee. Crit. Aran., p. 55 (£ only) 



(nom. praeoc). 

 1856. ,, nigriceps, Thor., Bee Crit. Aran., p. 56 ( $ only). 

 1861. ,, saccigera, Westr., Ar. Suec, p. 483. 

 1861. „ nigriceps, „ ,, ,, p. 486. 



1871. ,, congener, Camb., Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvii., p. 393, 



pi. 54, no. 1. 



1872. ,, nigriceps, Thor., Bern, on Syn., p. 283. 



1876. Pardosa „ Sim., Ar. de France, vol. iii., p. 328. 



1879. Lycosa „ Menge, Preuss. Spin., p. 549, pi. 89, 



tab. 313. 

 1881. ,, ,, Camb., Spid. Dorset, p. 382. 



Length : male, 5 mm. ; female, 6 mm. 



