4l8 ARACHNIDA ARANEAE chap. 



somely marked. One of the prettiest is Lycosa ^ficta, common 

 on the sandhills in some localities. 



Some exotic species are very large, Lycosa ingens, from Madeira, 

 measurinsr sometimes more than an inch and a half in length. 



Pardosa (Fig. 188, p. 341) is not so rich in species, but the 

 individuals of some species are wonderfully numerous. Hundreds 

 of P. lug-uhris, for example, may be seen scampering over the 

 dead leaves of a wood in the autumn. These spiders are generally 

 sombrely coloured and well covered with hair. Perhaps the com- 

 monest and most' widely -spread species in this country is P. 

 amentata. 



Fam. 33. Ctenidae. — The Ctenidae are X?/cosr<-like spiders, 

 having in certain points of structure close affinities with the 

 Pisauridae and the Sparassinae of the Thomisidae. The limits of 

 the family are not well defined, and many arachnologists place 

 in it some of the genera allotted above to the Pisauridae, while 

 others do not consider the group sufficiently marked off to con- 

 stitute a separate family at all. As here understood they are 

 equivalent to the Cteninae of the Clubionidae in Simon's Histoire 

 naturelle. The eyes are arranged in the Lyeosa fashion, but the 

 tarsi have only two terminal claws and well-developed " claw- 

 tufts," frequently accompanied by a scopula. There are strong, 

 regularly-arranged spines under the tibiae and tarsi. 



There are about fifteen genera. Uliodon numbers six species 

 of large hairy spiders in Australia. Ctenus is rich in species, 

 having about sixty, found in all hot countries, but especially in 

 America and Africa. They are also of large size and usually of 

 yellowish coloration, often diversified by a pattern on the abdomen. 

 The fifteen species of Leptoctenus are proper to tropical Asia. 

 Acanthcis from South Asia and Pnojjlectenus from Brazil are 

 more slender, elongate forms, recalling Tctrag7uttha. Caloctenus 

 includes a number of Pardosa-Wke spiders found at a high 

 elevation in South America. 



The Ctenidae have the habits of the Lycosidae, and are 

 wandering spiders, some forming a burrow in the ground. 



Fam. 34. Senoculidae.^ — ^The South American genus Sen- 

 octdus (Lahdacus) alone constitutes this family. The species are 

 probably numerous, but ten only have been described. They are 

 moderate -sized spiders, spinning no web, but rvmning with 

 astonishing speed over the leaves and stems of plants. The 



