and rare British Spiders. 257 



Examples of this spider were found some years ago at Port- 

 land, and more recently at Bloxworth ; three adult males were 

 also received in May last from Ventnor, where they were found 

 by Mr. J. H. Pearson, to whom I am indebted for their addi- 

 tion to my collection. The female has not yet been found in 

 England ; but I have received that sex also among many 

 examples of the male from the late Mr. J. T. Moggridge, by 

 whom they were found at Nice and Mentone ; both sexes 

 were also sent me by C. Collingwood, M.D., by whom they 

 were found at Montreux, Switzerland. The female does not 

 differ in colour and markings from the male j the genital aper- 

 ture is, like that of nearly all other known spiders, charac- 

 teristic in the details of its form and size. 



In his description of L. annidata, Dr. Thorell does not re- 

 mark upon the pale cubital joint and its white hairs with their 

 necessarily strong contrast to the dense clothing of black hairs 

 on the radial and digital joints. There is no doubt, however, 

 of the identity of the present with his species, inasmuch as he 

 has kindly sent me examples of his L. annulata, which in no 

 way differ from those I possess from France, England, or 

 Switzerland. 



Lycosa riparia. PI. VIII. fig. 11. 

 Lycosa riparia, C. Koch, Die Araehn. xv. p. 29, tab. 512. figs. 1435-36. 



Two adult males of this spider were found by myself near 

 Brighton in June 1871. In its general appearance it may 

 easily be mistaken (as I myself mistook it at the time) for 

 L. amentata, Clerck ; though it is, in reality, more nearly allied 

 to L. pullata, Clerck (L. obscura, Bl.). It may easily be 

 distinguished from L. amentata, Clk., by the long, oblique, 

 tapering, rather obtusely pointed spine in connexion with the 

 palpal organs, to the surface of which latter this spine also 

 adheres more closely in the present than in that species ; the 

 digital joint is also longer and much narrower in proportion. 



From L. pullata it may be distinguished as well by its 

 greater size as by the length and strength of this spine, and 

 also by the very distinctly annulated legs. In the two specimens 

 under consideration the legs are entirely annulated, except the 

 tarsi, which are of a brownish yellow hue ; the palpi are black, 

 which is also another strongly distinctive character. 



The central, yellow, thoracic band is, in the two examples 

 noted, obsolete at the occiput ; but in a female spider found at 

 the same time and place, and which I believe to be of this spe- 

 cies, the central band runs to the eyes, where it dilates as in 

 L. amentata and L.fluviatilis ; as, however, this example was 

 no<" quite adult, it cannot be considered certain that it is speci- 



