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characters, scarcely possible to be mistaken when once clearly 



Lycosa pullata appears to be common throughout Groat Britain 

 and Ireland. 



LYCOSA PEOXIMA. 



Pardosa proxima, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn xv., p. 53, pi. 517., 

 figs. 1453, 1454. 



Lyoosa troxiaia, C. L. Koch, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N. H., 

 February, 1878, p. 125, pi. xi., fig. 6. 



The length of tho nialo is about 2£ linos, and of the female 

 from 2-J to 3 lines. 



This spicier is nearly allied to Lycosa pullata, Clerck, but may 

 be distinguished, not only in the malo, by the structure of the 

 palpal organs, and more distinctly annulated femora of the legs* 

 but, in both sexes, by tho distinct, yellow, central, thoracic stripe, 

 and broken marginal ones of tho same colour. In the female 

 the legs aro wholly annulated excepting the tarsi, while in tho 

 males thero are seldom any annuli excepting on the femora of 

 the three hindor pairs. 



The cephalo-thorax of the male is of a deep blackish-brown 

 hue. The contral stripe is narrow, yellow, tinged often with 

 reddish, and clothed with grey hairs, and of an attenuated 

 diamond shape, the fore extremity terminating in a fine line, 

 just short of the ocular area ; the hinder extremity being not 

 quite so fine. The lateral stripes are well removed from tho 

 margins ; they are interrupted or broken, similar in colour to 

 tho central one, but seldom so distinct. 



The legs aro yellow-brown, frequently tinged with red-brown. 

 Tho femora of the first paii are markod and strongly suffused 

 with black, those of the other three pairs are pretty distinctly 

 annulated with the same colour ; the tibia) are occasionally faintly 

 annulated, the metatarsi moro rarely still. The femora of all 

 the legs aro occasionally moro or less black from an apparent 

 confluence of the dark annuli. The palpi are long ; tho humeral 



