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joints are blackish, the cubital and radial joints deep brown, 

 and the digital joint black ; this last is of a narrow oval form. 

 The palpal organs are not very complex ; near their centre on 

 the outer side is an obtuse, short, corneous process ; and a slender 

 slightly curved spine runs from the inner side across towards 

 the outer side, its fine point ending just in front of the obtuse 

 process. 



The abdomen is rather broadest behind ; it is black, clothed 

 with numerous greyish hairs. The pattern is often almost 

 obsolete, especially the angular bars on the hindor half of the 

 upper side. When traceable the normal marking is of a red- 

 dish-brown colour, clothed thickly with yellowish-grey hairs, 

 and of a somewhat attenuated, diamond-shape, sharpish pointed 

 behind. The angular bars are, in some examples, reddish- 

 brown; in others they are obsolete, excepting their dilated 

 extremities; these form two longitudinal converging rows of 

 black spots, which alternating with pale ones formed by greyish 

 hairs, comprise all the visible markings on tho hinder half. 



The sexes resemble each other, excepting that in tho female 

 the lateral thoracic stripes are brighter and more distinct, and 

 the legs more distinctly annulated. The annulations being 

 extended (though not as distinctly as on the femora and tibiee) 

 to the metatarsi. 



This spider occurs, though not very abundantly, in the 

 kitchen garden at Bloxworth Eoctory, running in sunshine on 

 the bare ground in tho months of April and May ; at first 

 sight it looks vory like a small example of L. amentata, but 

 the male may be distinguished easily by the smaller digital 

 joints of the palpi, which, with the radials, are also far less 

 clothed with black hairs. I mot with it, howevor, in abundance 

 on the swampy fiats, near Littlesea at Studland, in June, 1877, 

 on spots whence tho winters floods had retired, and tho mud- 

 bed dried up. Here it found congenial moisture, as well as 

 shelter beneath tufts of herbage, and heaps of refuse, such as 

 weeds, sticks, and debris of various kinds. It is altogether a 

 darker spider than Lycosa pullata ; tho palpi also are longer, the 



