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Thoracic bands yellowish brown, not very distinctly denned, 

 but clothed with very pale yellowish or reddish hairs : central 

 band somewhat dilated behind the eyes ; lateral bands irregularly 

 edged, but seldom broken. Sternum usually with a central, pale 

 band in the fore-half, especially in the female. Legs rather 

 strongly annulated in both sexes. 



This spider is less common than L. pullata, (Oliv.), to which it 

 bears a very strong resemblance. In England it seems restricted 

 to the southern counties, and it is very rare in Ireland. I have 

 no Scotch records. On the Continent this species ranges from 

 Scandinavia to Spain and through Central Europe to Russia. 



Lycosa saccata, (Linn.), 1758. 



(PI. 3, Figs. 10, a, b.) 



*1757. Araneus amentatus, Oik., Sv. SpincU., p. 96, pi. 4, tab. 8 



(saltern, fig. 2), (pre-L'uniean). 

 *1757. „ fumigatus, Clk., Sv. SpincU., p. 104, pi. 5, tab. 6 



( pre-Linnean). 

 1758. A ranea saccata, Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. X., i., p. 623 (ad 



partem). 

 1763. ,, lyonetti, Scop., Ent. ('urn., p. 403. 

 1778. ,, littoralis, De Geer., Mem., vii., p. 271, pi. 15, 



figs. 17—24. 

 1831. Lycosa saccata, Halm, Die Arach., vol. i., p. 108, tab. xxvii., 



ng. 81. 

 1834. ,, pahtdicola, C. L. Koch, Bents. Ins., 123; 32. 

 1848. Leimonia „ „ Die Arach., vol. xv., p. 10, 



tab. Dvii., 1421, 1422. 

 1848. Pardosa saccata, „ Die Arach., vol. xv. p. 51, 



tab. Dxvii., 1451, 1452. 

 1861. Lycosa amentata, Westr., Ar. Suec, p. 496. 

 1861. ,, saccata, Bl., Spid. G. B. I., p. 26, pi. ii., fig. 9 ; 



pi. iii., fig. 9. 

 1872. ,, amentata, Thor., Rem. on Syn., p. 298. 



1876. Pardosa „ Sim., Ar. de France, vol. iii., p. 341. 



1877. Lycosa „ Menge, Preuss. Spin., p. 539, pi. 87, 



tab. 305. 



* Clerck's Svenska Spindlar being prior to the tenth edition of Linnaeus' 

 Systema Xaturae, from which all nomenclature is held to date, his names 

 will have to be dropped. 



