186 F. P. SMITH ON SOME BRITISH SPIDERS TAKEN IN 1907. 



Lycosa farrenii, Camb., 1871. 



1871. Lycosa farrenii, Camb., Trans. Linn. Soc. 



1881. ,, „ Camb., Spiel. Dorset. 



1903. ,, ,, Camb., Proc. Dorset F. Club. 



1907. ,, ferruginea, F. P. Smith, Journ. Quekett Club. 



Since my communication upon the genus Lycosa in the last 

 number (No. 60) of this Journal, Dr. A. Pandell Jackson has 

 very kindly forwarded for my inspection male and female speci- 

 mens of the above rare spider. The llev. 0. Pickard- Cambridge's 

 statement in Proc. Dors. F. Club, vol. xxiv., p. 160, that this 

 species is identical with L. ferruginea, L. Koch, is certainly 

 incorrect ; and my own action of sinking L. farrenii as a synonym 

 of L. ferruginea, based upon this statement, is consequently 

 invalid. Mr. Cambridge's species is a very fine and remarkable 

 one, totally different from any other Lycosa known to me. 1 

 am now able to figure its more important characters (PI. 14, 

 Pigs. 3 a, b, c), and to append the following brief description : 

 Length : male, 6 mm. ; female, 7 mm. Ground-colour, pale 

 orange-brown, legs rather darker. Cephalothorax with a central 

 pale band, almost parallel, narrowing somewhat in its posterior 

 fourth. On each side of this, running from level with the pos- 

 terior eyes straight backward, is a reddish-brown band. The 

 remaining clear space is divided about half-way by a very narrow 

 longitudinal broken band of a brownish tint, and the extreme 

 edges are clearly lined with dark brown. The abdomen is rather 

 paler than the cephalothorax, and has a row of greyish, oblique, 

 broken bands or rows of blotches on each side which do not join in 

 the centre but leave a clear band. In the male only the under- 

 side of the abdomen, from the rima to the spinners, is thickly 

 covered with curious swollen hairs, each in shape very much 

 resembling a shoemaker's awl, the handle end being attached to 

 the integument. Legs with strong spines, and marked, especially 

 on upper sides of femora, with distinct brown spots, from many 

 of which the spines spring. Sternum of same colour as cephalo- 

 thorax, with a darker patch at the junction of each leg. Male 

 palpus with tibia of a swollen form. Female genitalia thickly 

 covered with pale hairs directed backwards. 



