colour than usual, and tho oblique rows of spots on the sides are 

 more numerous and more regularly carried out. In a female of 

 this variety the legs were totally devoid of any dark markings. 

 In a male of the same varietj' the under side of the abdomen 

 had a central, longitudinal, blackish stripe, and a less distinct, 

 spotty-looking, marginal one on each side, the ground colour 

 being reddish yellow-brown. Tho logs in this last examplo had 

 merely a few faint dark markings on the upper sides of the 

 femora. Another very similar male, however, had the legs 

 marked according to the normal type. 



The sexes of this very pretty and distinct species resomble 

 each other excepting in sizo. It is abundant in numerous parts 

 of Bloxworth Heath and other similar localities in the neighbour- 

 hood, being adult at the end of May and in June. It cannot be 

 mistaken for any other Lycosa, the contrast between its general 

 ashy- white colour (caused by its hairy pubescence) and black and 

 dark -brown markings, being very striking. Though abundant, it is 

 rather local, and where one is found there are usually many 

 others not far off. Like others of this group it is exceedingly 

 active in sunshine, though influenced also in a moment by the 

 withdrawal of the sun's rays. Tho original examples of this 

 species were found by myself on Bloxworth Heath, though 

 Mr. Blackwall inadvertently gives Portland as a locality* 

 Hitherto it has only occurred in England. 



About the middle of Juno, 1877, I met with several females 

 in the act of forming their egg cocoons ; these consisted, each, 

 of a hollow disk of puro white silk, some being further advanced 

 towards completion than others. It is probable that the female 

 deposits her eggs in the cocoon as soon as it has attained a 

 hemispherical form, and then spins an opposite silken hemis- 

 phere over them, finally attaching the cocoon to her spinners, 

 and in this way bearing it about with her until the young 

 spiders aro hatched. When completed the cocoon assumes a 

 greenish olive tint. 



♦Since the above was written I have received Lycosa herbigrada from 

 Scotland. 



