118 Mr. Blackwall's Catalogue of Spiders 



tica, and references to Lister's description and figure of the former species (De 

 Aran. p. 59. tit. xvii. fig. 17-) have been repeatedly included among the syno- 

 nyma of the latter by arachnologists of the highest authority. 



Family Lycosid^. 



Genus Lycosa, Latr. 



10. Lycosa andrenivora. 

 Lycosa andrenivora. Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t. i. p. 315. 



This spider frequents commons and old pastures in various parts of England 



and Wales. 



11. Lycosa AG RETYCA. 



Lycosa agretyca. Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t. i. p. 308. 

 Lycosa ruricola. Hahn, Die Arachn. b. i. p. 103. tab. xxvi. fig. 77- 



Lycosa agretyca occurs in old pastures in England and Wales. In the 

 month of June the female excavates an elliptical cavity in the earth beneath 

 stones, into which she retires with her cocoon, which is globular, composed of 

 fine white silk of a compact texture, and is encircled by a narrow zone of a 

 slighter fabric ; it measures ^th of an inch in diameter, and contains about 

 110 spherical eggs of a pale yellow colour, not agglutinated together. The 

 cocoon is attached to the spinners of the female by short lines of silk, and the 

 young, when they quit it, mount on her body and are supplied by her with 

 food. This species frequently passes the winter in the cavities Avhich it forms 

 in the earth under stones. 



] 2. Lycosa allodroma. 



Lycosa allodroma. Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t. i. p. 330. Koch, Die 

 Arachn. b. v. p. 106. tab. clxxii. fig. 410, 411. 



In the spring of 1836 I discovered a light-coloured variety of this fine spider 

 among water-worn stones and fragments of rock on the banks of the river 

 Llugwy, near Capel Curig, Caernarvonshire; and, supposing it to be unknown 

 to arachnologists, I described it under the appellation Lycosa leucophcea in the 

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