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Cephalo-thorax deep reddish-brown. Oaput black. Thorax 

 clothed with greyish puboscence and marked with rather indis- 

 tinct converging blackish stripes. 



Legs long, 4.3.1.2., moderately strong ; colour dull reddish 

 yellow-brown, annulated with deep blackish-brown, more dis- 

 tinctly so in the females than in the males ; in both sexes the 

 paler portions aro clothed with greyish-white pubescence. 



Palpi rather long, and strong; similar, in colour and markings, 

 to the legs. Digital joint of the male black ; radial joint longer 

 than the cubital, and, with the digital, furnished pretty thickly 

 with black hairs ; digital joint long and strong, terminating with 

 a strongish, slightly crooked spine. Palpal organs prominent, 

 especially the hinder portion of the main lobe, which is directed 

 rather backwards; from its upper surfaco issue two strong, 

 prominont, divergent processes, the inner one curved and double 

 the length and strength of the outer one. Those processes are 

 united, or closely adherent, at their base, and have a strongly 

 furcate, and rather conspicuous appearance. 



Sternum black. 



Abdomen, thickly clothed with hairs, and of a dull sooty-black 

 hue above. Pattern very obscure ; normal marking on the fore 

 part of the upper side obscure, yellowish red-brown, bordered by 

 a blacker line, and (apparently) sharp-pointed behind ; on the 

 hinder part are some obscure spots formed of whitish hairs, and 

 arranged in a longitudinal row on either side ; between the rows 

 are some faint, similarly-formed, transverse, curved lines. Undor 

 side vinous brown, thinly clothed with short whitish pubescence. 



Pound on the mountains near Braemar, Scotland. 



LYCOSA FAERENII. 



Lycosa faerenii, Camlr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 395, pi. 54, 

 No. 2. 



Length of the male 1\ lines ; female rather larger. 



In size and general appearance this spider bears some 

 resemblance to several other species of Lycosa, but the male may 



