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usually of a brighter colour and edged with black ; it is clothed, 

 especially in front, with white hairs, and has a prominent point on 

 each side at its widest part, whence it tapers to its extremity which 

 is obtuse. The angular bars are black, generally distinct, often 

 particularly so, and their terminations are dilated and continued 

 in short lines on the sides ; the intervals between thoir termina- 

 tions form pale spots. The sides are marked with linear spots 

 and markings, and clothed with greyish and othor hairs ; the 

 grey ones often forming oblique lines. The underside is reddish- 

 brown, marked with an obscure blackish central, and sometimes 

 a lateral, stripe of the same hue on each side. 



The f omale is lightor coloured, being of a dark brown hue, but 

 in other respects resembles the male. 



This spidor occurs, not unfrequontly, in the kitchen garden at 

 Bloxworth Eectory, as well as in woods and on waste grounds 

 towards the end of April and in May ; running in sunshine 

 among the rough knobs of earth where the soil has not been 

 very lately disturbed, or among the herbage. Directly tho sun is 

 obscured, or if danger threaten, these spiders quickly find a 

 refuge among the clods, whence it is no very easy matter, some- 

 times, to dislodge them. It is probable that this spider is 

 genorally distributed, though very likely to be overlooked owing 

 to its similarity at first sight to several other species. Excepting 

 however in the locality above mentioned, and at Glauvillos 

 Wootton, the only other as yet recorded one in England is on the 

 Brighton coast, where I met with it in June, 1871. 



LYCOSA PKATIVAGA. 



Lyoosa prativaga, C. L. Koch., Die Arachn. Fauna Galiziens, p. 



43 ; and Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N.H., 



October, 1875, p. 258, pi. viii., fig. 12. 



The male measures 2 J lines in length, and the female 2 J lines. 



This spidor is exceedingly closely allied to Lycosa riparia, the 



logs being very similarly though not quite so vividly, annulated. 



Tho thoracic stripos are also less distinct, more nearly rosem- 



