32 Rev. F. O. Pickard-Cambridge on British 8pid( 



ers. 



identity of freshly caught specimens with the help of the 

 above characters. The form of the epigyne varies so much 

 in different specimens of the same species, that one will not 

 be incHned to place too great reliance upon any characters 

 furnished by it. 



The teeth on the upper and lower margins of the fang- 

 groove might, if constant, furnish good characters. 



Synonymy. 

 Lycosa rohusta^ Sim. 1876. 

 Trochusa robnsta, Kulcz. 1892. 



Lycosa ruricola^ De Geer, 1778. 



Lycosa campestris, Bl. 1861. 

 Lycosa ruricola, Sim. 1876. 

 Trochosa ruricola, Cambr. 1881, Thor. 1872, Kulcz. 1892. 



Lycosa terricola, Thor. 1856. 



Lycosa agretyca, Bl. 1861. 



Trochosa terricola, Thor. 1872, Cambr. 1881, Kulcz. 1892. 



Lycosa terricola, Sim. 1876. 



Genus Paedosa. 

 (Lycosa.) 



Pardosa purheckensis^ sp. n. 

 (PI. IV. figs. 1, 4, 7, 8, 9.) 



Male, ceph. 3-25, abd. 3*5 millim. or 3 lines; female, 

 ceph. 4, abd. 5*5 millim. or A\ lines. 



Cephalothorax deep sienna-brown, clothed with sooty-black 

 pubescence, having three narrow, longitudinal^ bright yellow 

 stripes — one in the centre extending from the caput, where it 

 is attenuate, to the base ; the others lying one on either side 

 near the margin, extending from the clypeus to the base. 



Fakes bright yellow, having a central basal and lateral 

 basal brown streak ; the inner and apical margin is also 

 brown. 



Legs very long, brown on the upperside, spotted and 

 streaked with black, bright yellow beneath ; furnished with 

 long spines and black hair. Protarsi i. in the male are 

 furnished on either side with numerous very long, stiff, oblique 

 bristles. In both sexes the legs are very hairy. 



Abdomen deep brown, clothed with sooty-black pubescence 

 and hairs, having an indistinct paler, lanceolate, dorsal central 

 bar at the base, the pale hue being continued, though scarcely 



