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tynna has recently been given to an annulate genus by Mr. Westvvood; 

 in both instances the second employment of the name must be amended. 



7. Lycosa rapax. Cephalothorax large, hairy, dark brown, with a 

 broad yellowish band extending along the middle, and an obscure one 

 of the same hue above each lateral margin : mandibles powerful, co- 

 nical, armed with a few internal teeth, dark brown, with a faint tinge 

 of red near the base : legs robust, reddish brown, with blackish brown 

 spots and streaks on the thighs, fourth pair the longest, then the first, 

 second and third : abdomen oviform, thickly covered with hairs : a 

 broad band of yellowish brown, which tapers to the spinners, occu- 

 pies the middle of the upper part; this band has a black border bro- 

 ken into spots posteriorly, which form, with smaller confluent ones of 

 the same hue, oblique lines extending down the sides, which are yel- 

 lowish. The length is -| of an inch : it frequents woods, pastures and 

 commons, also the sea-shore just above high- water mark, and the sum- 

 mits of Snowdon and other mountains : the female spins a globular 

 cocoon of pale yellowish silk, in which she deposits sixty or seventy 

 spherical pale yellow eggs. (Id. 609). 



8. Lycosa ohscura. Cephalothorax rufescent : mandibles powerful, 

 conical, armed with a few teeth on the inner surface : fourth pair of 

 legs longest, the rest equal : abdomen oviform, very hairy, above 

 brown, with three minute tufts of yellowish hairs anteriorly : length \ 

 of an inch : females frequent short grass and heath in Denbighshire and 

 Caernarvonshire, with the cocoons attached to their spinners ; when 

 the young are hatched they mount on the back of the mother. (Id. 611). 



9. Lycosa latitans. Cephalothorax dark brown, with a few white 

 hairs on the lateral margins : mandibles as in the last : legs yellowish 

 brown with darker bands, fourth pair the longest, the rest nearly equal : 

 abdomen dark brown tinged with olive, and having above a double 

 row of white spots, and numerous white hairs both above and on the 

 sides : its length is \ of an inch : females are found in May and June 

 in moist situations in woods in Denbighshire, with cocoons attached 

 to their spinners. (Id. 612). 



10. Lycosa Camhrica. Cephalothorax large, brownish black, clo- 

 thed with yellowish brown hairs, the posterior part and sides have 

 white hairs disposed in irregular spots : the mandibles have a fringe 

 of long hairs on the inner surface : legs dark yellow-brown, with black 

 bands, fourth pair the longest, then the first, second and third : abdo- 

 men above yellowish brown, with a pale dark-bordered band about a 

 third of its length above : its length is f of an inch : it was taken in 

 swampy ground at Oakland, in May, 1839. (Id. 614). 



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