3-0 F. T. SMITH ON SOME BRITISH SPIDERS TAKEN IN 1908. 



Family LYCOSIDAE. 

 Tarantula carinata (Oliv.), 1789. 



1757. Araneus pulverulentus, Clk., Sv. Spindl. (pre-Linnean). 



1789. Aranea carinata, Oliv., Ency. Jleth. 



1825. Lycosa graminicola, Walck., Faune Franc. 



1834. Lycosa gastienensis, C. L. K., Deuts. Ins. 



18-41. ,, rapax, Bl., Trans. Linn. Soc. 



1848. Tarentula cuneata, C. L. K., Die Arach. 



1861. Lycosa rapax, Bl., Spid. G. B. I. 



1881. Tarentula pulverulenta, Camb., Spid. Dorset. 



1900. ,, pulverulenta, Camb., List Brit. Irish Spid. 



This common species occurred plentifully in a very restricted 

 area in Epping Forest, near Chingford, during May. Hitherto I 

 have found it rather rare in the London district. 



Tarentula cuneata (Sund.), 1833. 



1757. Araneus cuneatus, Clk., Sv. Spindl. [pre-Linnean). 



1833. Lycosa cimeata, Sund., Sv. Ak. Handl. 



1834. „ clavipes, C. L. K., Deuts. Ins. 

 1837. ,, armillata, Walck., Ins. Apt. 



1871. ,, barbipes, Camb., Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 1881. Tarentula cuneata, Camb., Spid. Dorset. 



Males of this species, easily recognisable by the black and 

 greatly incrassated tibiae of the front legs, were taken during the 

 last week of May and the first week of June at Bexhill, running 

 rapidly on dusty roads at the hottest part of the day. 



Tarentula nemoralis (Westr.), 1861. 



1848. Lycosa nivalis, C. L. Koch, Die Arach. {ad. partem). 

 1861. ,, nemoralis, Westr., Ar. Suec. 



1872. Tarentida meridiana, Thor., Rem. on Syn. 



1^07. ,, nemoralis, F. P. S., Journ. Quekett Club. 



The discovery of an adult male and an immature female of 

 this species at Bexhill, as recorded in the Quekett Journal for 

 .November, 1907, induced me to spend the latter Jialf of May of 

 this year in the same locality. The original pair were found in a 



