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exceedingly abundant, the dead leaves of the previous year being 

 quite alive with thorn on bright mornings in May and June ; 

 they then come out to bask in the sun, disappearing as if by 

 magic on the smallest obscuration of its rays. It is at this 

 period that they are in the adult state. The male is a striking 

 object, with his jet black, and white habiliments; and the more 

 soberly coloured females may be seen throughout the summer 

 with their egg cocoons attached to the spinnors. Long before this, 

 however, the males, with an occasional excoption, have dis- 

 appeared. I havo mot with this species in other parts of Dorset- 

 shire ; it occurs also in many part of England, as well as in 

 Scotland, and is abundant in North Wales. 



LYCOSA PULLATA. 



Aeanetjs pullattjs, Clerch., Sv. Spin.cU., p. 104, pi. 5, tab. 7. 

 Lycosa onsouEA, Blacho., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 28, pi. 

 ii., fig. 11. 



The male measures from a little more than 2 to 2£ lines in 

 length, and the female from 2£ to 3 lines. 



The cephalo-thorax of the male is of a dark yellowish-brown 

 colour, the ocular region black -brown ; the central, longitudinal 

 band is narrow, sometimes very slightly dilated at the occiput, 

 and of an obscuro reddish-brown colour. The lateral bands (of 

 the same colour) are also narrow, not very well defined, and 

 near to, but not touching, the margins. 



The legs are rather long, moderately strong, of a brownish- 

 yellow colour often tinged with red-brown ; the femora of the 

 first pair are strongly suffused with blackish, and those of the 

 other pairs are obscurely annulated with brown, the annuli 

 being scarcely discernible on the under sides. 



The palpi are moderately long, and of a yellow-brown hue, 

 tho digital joint (which is of moderate size) being dark brown. 

 The palpal organs are not very complex but tolerably prominent ; 

 a strongish, tapering, sharp, pointed spine runs obliquoly from 



