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amentata, in the absence of the curved spine near the middle ; 

 the spine being replaced by a small, prominent, oval, tubercular 

 procoss. 



This spider is abundant in open places in woods, and on waste 

 forost-liko spots at Bloxworth, and in other localities in Dorset- 

 shire, and is adult in the months of April, May, and June. It 

 appears to frequent spots untenanted by Lycosa amentata. I have 

 at any rate never yet found it in thoso places whore that spider 

 is abundant ; nor have I found Lycosa amentata where Lycosa 

 annulata is common. I have received examples of this species 

 from tho Isle of Wight. 



LYCOSA AREMCOLA. 



Lycosa akenioola, Cantor., Ann. and Mag. N. H., October, 

 1875, p. 253, pi. viii., fig. 9. 



The length of the male is 3 lines, and that of the female 3J. 



This spidor may be easily distinguished from Lycosa amentata 

 by the narrow, central, longitudinal, yellow band or stripe on 

 the cophalo-thorax. This stripe bogins on, or at, the ocular 

 area as a fine line enlarging gradually to tho thoracic junction, 

 whence it tapers again to its extremity. The two marginal 

 bands are broken into, generally, throe portions, and are further 

 from the margins than in Lycosa amentata. These three bands 

 are yellowish, and the rest of the surface deep black-brown. 



The legs are long, 4.1.2.3., of a dull yollowish colour, the tarsi 

 of the first pair, with usually the tips of tho fourth pair, and 

 sometimes also of all the rest, black. All the femora are more 

 or less clouded or suffusod with black, the upper sides being 

 frequently marked with two elongate-oval, clear, yollowish 

 patches, giving them a somewhat striped look. The spines, 

 especially those on the fourth pair, are long. 



The palpi are black-brown ; the radial is stronger than the 

 cubital joint, and with the digital (which is large) is clothed 

 thickly with black hairs. 



The palpal organs have a long, strong, oblique, slightly- 



