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angular bars form a series of reddish-brown triangles, or a 

 broad dentated band. The sides are dark brown, marked and 

 spotted with blackish, some of the spots frequently forming obliquo 

 lines, and thoro are often some pale spots on each side, next 

 to the spinners. The under part is of a blackish hue, with two 

 obscure, longitudinal, submarginal, reddish-brown stripes, which 

 convergo towards tho spinners. 



The female is usually more distinctly marked than the male, 

 and the thoracic stripes are broader; the submarginal brown one 

 being often very narrow and much broken. The genital process 

 is large, of a reddish colour, and as broad at its posterior 

 extremity as it is long. 



This spider occurs, but (as far as my experience goes) not 

 plentifully, in various parts of Dorsetshire, on wasto lands, and in 

 meadows, in the months of May, June, and July. I also meet 

 with it, occasionally, running on the bare ground, or in the 

 strawberry and raspberry beds, in the Rectory garden at Blox- 

 worth. It is alliodto Lycosa herbigrada, Black w., but the larger size 

 and hoary white and black markings of the latter will entirely 

 proventany confusion of the two. From Lycosa pullata the clearly 

 defined thoracic stripes, and large digital joints of the palpi, 

 separato it oasily ; while from Lycosa riparia and Lycosa pratkaga 

 it may be known at once by the absence of dark annuli on tho 

 legs. I have received Lycosa palustris from various parts of 

 England, and havo met with it myself in tolerable abundance at 

 Soutbport, in Lancashire ; it appears also to be generally distri- 

 buted in Scotland. 



LYCOSA MONTICOLA. 



Pardosa monticola, C. L. Koch., Die. Arachn. xv., p. 42, pi. 515, 



fig. 1446-48. 

 Lycosa exioua, Blachw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 29, pi. ii., 



fig. 12 (in part). 

 In size, form, colours, and markings this spider so closely 

 resembles Lycosa palustris, that all attempts by various 



