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connected by a fine black line, or running into each otber, giving 

 to the abdomen a very protty and variegated look, most notice- 

 able in females and immature males. The sides and under part 

 are a mixture of yellow-brown, darken brown, and greyish ; the 

 latter with a narrow, spotty looking, brownish yellow, marginal 

 stripe on each side. 



Excepting in the points above noticed the sexes differ but very 

 little. 



This is a fine and handsome species. I have found it, though 

 rarely, in damp meadows and marshy places at Bloxworth in 

 June and July, but more abundantly at the Swannery, at Abbots- 

 bury on the 20th of June, 1876. It has also occurred in other 

 parts of England, as well as in various localities in Scotland, and 

 in North Wales. The male can hardly be mistaken for any 

 other British Lycosid, if the narrowness of the digital joints of 

 the palpi be borne in mind. 



TROCHOSA PICTA. 



Lycosa picta, Halm., Blackw., Spid. Great. Brit, and Irel., p. 25, 

 pi. i., fig. 8. 



Like the foregoing species, the present also varies consider- 

 ably in size. I have met with males measuring from 2£ to 

 nearly 4 lines in length, and females from 3J to 5 lines. 



Trochosa picta is one of the handsomest, perhaps the hand- 

 somest, of all our indigenous Lycosids. 



The form of the cephalo-thorax is very similar to that of 

 Trochosa leopardus ; it is of a reddish yellow-brown colour with a 

 broad, lateral, blackish, or deep brown, band on each side, and 

 a narrower marginal one of the same colour. The margins of 

 tho lateral bands are very irregular or denticulate, so that fre- 

 quently the spaces between them and the marginal ones are 

 reduced to a row of broken patches, and the central, red- brown 

 band is represented by a large, transverse, oblong marking 



