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TROCHOSA LEOPARDUS. 



Lyoosa leopardtjs, Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., Vet. Akad. Handl. 



f. 1832, p. 189, and Tlior. Syn. Eur. Spid. 



p. 331. 

 Lycosa cahbrica, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel. p. 32, 



pi. ii., fig. 14. 



The length of the male is about 3 J lines, and that of the femalo 

 from 4 to 4£ lines, but both sexes vary a good deal in size. 



The cepkalo-thorax is broad and truncated in front, the lateral 

 constrictions on the margins of the caput being slight ; its colour 

 is deep blackish-brown, thinly clothed with short, greyish, 

 yellow-brown pubescence, and a few erect hairs, of which some 

 on the sides and hinder part are white. 



The legs are rather strong, not very long — 4.1.2.3. Their 

 colour is yellow-brown, varying a good deal in depth and clear- 

 ness, and annulated distinctly with black. 



The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, but much less dis- 

 tinctly marked. The radial and cubital joints are of equal length ; 

 the digital joint is of a very narrow, elongate-oval form, not 

 much broader than the radial joint ; the palpal organs occupying 

 a circular cavity at its base, of less than half the length of the 

 joint, and are neither prominent nor complex. 



The lateral eyes of the anterior row are slightly larger than 

 those of the central pair. 



The abdomen is oval, rather broadest behind. It is closely 

 covered with greyish yellow-brown pubescence, and some sparse 

 erect dark hairs ; the normal longitudinal marking on the fore 

 part of the upper side is of a somewhat dusky brown colour, a 

 little prominent on each side just past the middle, the prominences 

 being brought out more strongly by a black spot in connection 

 with each. The angular bars on the hinder part are short, 

 similar in colour to tho normal marking, but often very obscure 

 and (in males) fiequently obsolete behind their extremities ; and 

 at their apices, which are usually broken, are black spots, often 



