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LYCOSA ANNULATA. 



Lycosa annulata, Thor., Syn. Eur. Spid. 299. 



Taiidosa iioutensis, Sim., Arachn. do France torn, iii., p. 343, 



non. Lycosa iioktensis, Thor. 

 Lycosa annulata, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N. H. Oct., 1875, p. 

 256, pi. viii., fig 10. 



Tho length of the male is a little more than 2 lines, and that 

 of the female from 2£ to 3 lines. 



This spider is nearly allied to Lycosa amentata, Clerck. ; it is, 

 however, smaller, and not so dark coloured. In the goneral 

 character of its markings it is very similar to that species, but 

 the central yellowish band on the cephalo-thorax is much more 

 strongly indented, or constricted, at the occiput, and the lateral 

 ones are closer to the margins. The normal marking on the 

 fore half of the upper side of the abdomen is of a dull yellow- 

 brown colour, pointed behind, slonderly edged, or spotted on the 

 edges with blackish, and with a short, black, oblique Hne on 

 each side of its broadest part. The angular bars are reddish 

 yellow-brown, in general tolorably distinct, and divided into two 

 parts by a black line at the apex ; each part contains a small 

 black spot, and at their terminations on either side is a black 

 blotch. The sides are yellow-brown, obscurely marked with 

 darker brown, and the under side is of a paler hue. 



In the annulation of the legs this spocies rosombles Lycosa 

 amentata, though the legs themselves are of a paler, yellower 

 colour. The sexes differ but littlo. 



The male may bo distinguished at a glance from that of Lycosa 

 amentata by the colour of its palpi ; in these the humeral joint 

 is deep brown, the cubital yellow, slightly marked with brown 

 near its base, and clothed with whitish hairs at its fore extremity; 

 the radial joint is dark brown, and the digital joint still darker, 

 both being densely clothed with black hairs, forming a strong 

 contrast to the pale cubital joint. 

 The palpal organs differ remarkably from those of Lycosa 



