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XVI. Descriptions of some British Spiders new to science; with a Notice of others, of 
which some are now for the first time recorded as British species. By the Rev. 
O. P. CAMBRIDGE. Communicated by JAMES SALTER, Esq., F.R.S. 
(Plates LIV-LVIT.) 
Read January 20th, 1870. 
THE materials of the present paper are a portion of those which have been accumu- 
lating since the publication by the Ray Society, in 1864, of Mr. Blackwall's work on 
British and Irish Spiders, with the intention of forming a supplementary volume to 
that work; none of these materials have been yet made public, the author having delayed 
any record of the numerous undescribed species contained in them, on the supposition 
that the supplementary volume alluded to would have long since been published. As, 
however, its publication appears to be indefinitely delayed, it has been thought advisable 
not to postpone longer some notice of the occurrence of so many new and interesting 
species. Towards this end the Ray Society have kindly permitted the use of a portion of 
the beautiful and accurate drawings made by Mr. T. H. Hollick for the above-mentioned 
supplement, which the Society contemplates publishing at some future time; the present 
descriptions will therefore be accompanied by illustrations of interesting structural 
features, taken from Mr. Hollick's drawings, as well as from the author's own sketches. 
In the arrangement of the species now recorded, the system adopted by Mr. Blackwall 
has been adopted, for obvious reasons; not, however, to mix up with the descriptions of 
species considered to be new to science mere notices of others, or records of first occur- 
rence as British, these latter follow the former at the end of each genus respectively ; 
the relative position, therefore, within the genus, of those species here noticed and re- 
eorded is not to be understood as specifying a linear arrangement on any scientific 
grounds. 
Order ARANEIDEA. 
Family LYCOSIDES. 
Genus Lycosa. 
Lycosa CONGENER, n. sp. (Pl. 54. no. 1.) | 
Female adult, length + of an inch, or 3 lines; male adult rather shorter; some females, 
when the abdomen is distended with eggs, are a little longer. 
- Cephalothoraz of the adult male long, rather narrow, profile line of upper part slightly 
hollow behind the caput; hind slope rather abrupt, sides somewhat depressed towards 
the margins. Caput projects considerably beyond the insertion of the falees; ocular 
ie region deep brown, approaching black. 
= "The colour of the rest of the cephalothoraz is dark brown, with a central and two lateral 
