548 



aro paler and moro distinctly marked with black linos and mark- 

 ings, and the sternum is yellow, with a marginal border of 

 largish dark brown spots. 



Found in Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire ; and very recently 

 received from the neighbourhood of Paris from Monsieur Eugene 

 Simon. 



GENUS TARENTULA, Sunt. 

 TAUENTULA MINI ATA. 



Tarentula miniata, C. L. Koch, Die. Arachn. xiv., p. 196, Tub, 



503, fig. 1406, 1408. 

 Lycosa nivalis, Cambr., Zoologist 1860, p. 6862 and 6895. 

 ,, miniata, Ibid, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 398. 



Length of the female 2J lines ; female rather larger. 



Cephalo -thorax dark brown on the sides, with narrow marginal, 

 and broad longitudinal central, reddish yellow-brown bands, 

 clothed with pubescence. The central band is slightly constricted 

 at the occiput, and includes the area of tho four posterior eyes. 



Legs reddish yollow-brown ; femora and tibiro (the latter 

 slightly) annulated with dark brown, and clothed with greyish 

 pubescence. 



Palpi similar to the legs in colour ; cubital and radial joints 

 short, and of equal length ; digital joint of moderate size ; 

 palpal organs not very complex. 



Abdomen oval, of a reddish yellow-brown colour, more or less 

 clothed with grey, and yellowish grey pubescence. The normal 

 marking is large, of a browner hue, bordered by a marginal 

 black lino, with a prominent point on each side, and a somewhat 

 obtuse termination ; on each side of this termination, and follow- 

 ing it, is a series of more or less obsolete, oblique, blackish lines, 

 or broken angular bars, whose extromities are dilated, forming 

 on each side a longitudinal row of black spots, alternately with 



