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TARENTULA CUNEATA. 



Aeaneus cuneatus, Clerck, Sv., Spindl., p. 99, pi. iv., tab. 11. 

 Lycosa baebipes, Sand., Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 398. 

 „ armillata, Walck, Cambr., Zoologist 1861, p. 7555. 



Longth of the male, 2£ to 3 lines, and of the female 3 to 4 

 lines. 



This very distinct and striking specios is nearly allied, and 

 similar in its colour and markings, to Tarentula puhendcnta 

 Clerck., but it is, in general, more distinctly marked, and the paler 

 parts are clothed with whiter hairs. The male may be distin- 

 guished at a glance by the tumidity, or gouty-looking incrassa- 

 tion of the tibite of the first pair of legs, the tumid part being 

 deep black-brown and obliquely indented on each side. 



Pound by my nephew, Frederick 0. P. Cambridge, near 

 Sherborne in September, 1878, and by myself in June, 1879; 

 also on the Downs near Hursley, Hants, in the month of May, 

 1862 ; as well as near Brighton, in June, 1871, but apparently a 

 very rare spider there. It has also occurred in some abundance 

 at Eingstead, on the Coast between Weymouth and Lulworth, in 

 April, 1879, and I havo received an example of it from Woking- 

 ham. 



TARENTULA ANDRENIVORA. 



Lyoosa andeenivora, Walck., Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and 

 Irel., p. 20, pi. i., fig. 4. 



Tho male measures from 3 J to 4 J lines in length, and tho 

 female from 3 £ to 5 lines. 



Tho cephalo-thorax is very liko that of Tarentula pulverulenta 

 in its markings, but the marginal band is broader; and the 

 central band, which is thickly clothed with grey pubescence, is 

 strongly constricted, or sharply indonted, on each side of the 

 occiput, and often more finely donticulate on the margins behind 

 it. The sides are dark brown. The central eyes of the anterior 



