126 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on British Spiders. 
I found it in abundance, both males and females, in the adult 
state, running about actively on the closely fed and extensive 
downs between Bloxworth and Blandford; none had yet their 
ege-sacs attached to the spinners. 
Lycosa herbigrada, Blackw. 
On the 15th and 16th of June, 1877, I had opportunities 
of observing the egg-sacs of this spider shortly after their 
commencement ; these consisted each of a hollow disk of pure 
white silk; some were further advanced towards completion 
than others; and although the parent spider was with each of 
the cocoons, none had been yet attached to the spinners. The 
deposition of eggs in the cocoon probably takes but a very short 
time, and is most likely effected soon after the sac has at- 
tained a hemispherical form. ‘The operation of spinning the 
opposite silken hemisphere over the eggs would be quickly 
performed ; and the egg-sac is no doubt then at once attached 
to the spinners. The sac is of a pure white colour until the 
eges are placed in it; it then assumes the greenish-olive tint 
usually observed when afterwards the spider bears it about 
with her until the young are hatched. The operation of 
making the egg-sac, laying the eggs in it, and completing 
it takes place usually under a stone, or beneath the dried crust 
of previous muddy puddles. 
Lycosa herbigrada, although local, is an abundant spider 
on some parts of the heaths in the south of England, and is 
one of the prettiest and most distinctly marked of all our indi- 
_genous species. 
It has been found in Sweden and Germany, but does not 
appear to have been yet met with in France (vide E. Simon, 
Arachn. de France, tome ili. p. 323). 
Lycosa annulata. 
Lycosa annulata, Thor., Cambr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1875, xvi. 
p- 256, pl. viii. fig. 10. 
Pardosa hortensis, Sim. Arachnides de France, iii. p. 343. 
When this spider was first recorded as a British species I 
was not able to fix any special locality for it. The examples 
found in my collection were obtained from Portland and at 
Bloxworth, or in the neighbourhood, but were mixed up with 
and mistaken for Lycosa amentata, Clk.; I have, however, 
during the past season, from the 11th to the end of May, found 
both sexes in the adult state, in tolerable abundance, in Bere- 
wood, near Bloxworth, at the Yarrells, Lytchett Minster, near 
Poole, and in other wooded localities in the neighbourhood. 
It will probably be found to be one of the most abundant 
