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water lasts for a long time in the summer. The fishermen and 

 country people of the mentioned localities appeared to me not to be 

 acquainted with the animal. 



Molge italica is very closely allied by the structure of its skuU 

 both to the typical M. vulgaris and subsp. meridionalis. The 

 skull of M. italica is stouter, the interorbital space is constantly 

 larger than in M. vulgaris, being contained twice and two-thirds, 

 never thrice (as in M. vulgaris), in the length of the skull. The 

 fronto-orbital processes are more developed, being longer, stouter, 

 and directed more outwardly than in M. vulgaris. The Ugameutous 

 portion of the fronto-squamosal arch is more reduced here, so 

 that we may consider M. italica as a true transitional form between 

 M. vulgaris and the allied species with the fronto-squamosal arch 

 bony. 



The new species is easily recognizable from its allies, both from 

 the species with a dorsal crest {M. vulgaris, jsaZmaia) or those 

 without {21. hoscce, montandoni), by the presence in both sexes of 

 a well-marked dorsal longitudinal groove, while even in the alUed 

 species without dorsal crest both the males and females are pro- 

 vided with a straight and low cutaneous dorsal ridge \ 



The excellent Plate, drawn by Mr. Smit, under the kind super- 

 vision of my friend Mr. Boulenger, to both of whom I beg to 

 tender my best thanks, shows so well the characters of the species 

 that I need not insist on other diiferences in the coloration which 

 can be easily noticed between M. italica and its allies. 



5. On some Spiders from Savoy. By the Rev. O. Pickard- 

 Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[Eeceived May 13, 1898.] 



A small collection of Spiders made for me at the Chalet de 

 Melezes, near St. G-ervais les Bains, Haute-Savoie, in July and 

 August 1894, by Mr. A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, with others made 

 in August 1896 and July 1897, contained examples of thirty-two 

 species, one of which (of the genus Gnaphosa) appears to me to be 

 undescribed. Another species, Lycosa (Pardosa) riparia 0. L. Koch, 

 is of great interest, as little seems to be known of it. M. Simon, 

 in his great work on French Spiders, describes under that name 

 a totally distinct form. Dr. Ludwig Koch has kindly sent me a 

 reliable type of the trae L. riparia, by which I have been able to 

 determine the examples in the present collection. 



Subjoined is a list of the species, with descriptions of the new 

 Gnaphosa and of the Lycosa riparia. 



^ See the outlines of the body in the mentioned species given by Boulenger 

 in his " Description d'une espece nouvelle de Triton," Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1880, pi. vii. 



