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(with a face considerably lower than the length of the mandibles, 

 and with convex and slanting sides), as also the spherical cocoon, ap- 

 pears to me to indicate that its proper place is in the first-named 

 of these genera. 



On rubbing off the hair which covers the greater part of the 

 vulva, it appears that this organ consists of two small, oval spots 

 bounded by fine furrows, and of a bright white colour when in spi- 

 rits; these spots are placed obliquely, diverging backwards, and are 

 separated by a pretty broad and short, fiat septum dilated behind. 

 At the apex of that septum, immediately behind the above men- 

 tioned ovals, is a little black spot on each side. These black spots 

 are all that is visible of the vulva, when the hair has not been 

 rubbed off. The male has two small processes on the under side of 

 the genital bulb; the posterior one, which is situated near the middle, 

 is rounded at its apex, the other, which is posited immediately in 

 front of the first, is dilated at the apex and cloven into two small 

 pointed lobes. By this the male of T. meridiana is easily distin- 

 guished from T. miniata C. Koch'), the male of which is destitute 

 of these processes, and in the female of which the vulva is almost 

 exactly similar to that of T. meridiana, except that the two shining 

 white ovals are almost parallel, not rapidly diverging backwards, as 

 is the case in 1\ meridiana. 



Of T, miniata, which has not hitherto been reckoned to the I 

 Swedish Fauna, Mr A. Stuxberg has met with a cf and % ad. in 11 

 island of Gotland. 



(Pag. 474.) 3. L. Silvicola [= Lycosa lugubris Walck. 1802]. 



Syn.:?m$. Aranea dorsalis Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 437. 



1802. „ LUG0BRIS Walck., Faune Par., II, p. 239. 

 1805. Lycosa „ id., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 13. 



1833. „ sylvicola Sond., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. I 



■ ' f. 1832, p. 176. 



1833. „ ALACRis C. Koch, in Herr.-Sch^eff., Deutschl. Ins., 120, I 



17, 18 (sec. C. Koch, Die Arachn.). 

 1836. „ silvicultrlx. id., Die Arachn., m, p. 25 , Tab. LXXXII, jl 



figg. 182, 183. 



1848. „ (Pardosa) alacris id., ibid., XV, p. 39, Tab. DXIV, figg. , 



1443, 1444. 



1861. „ lugubris Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 27, PI. II, fig. 10. Ill 



1) Die Arachn., XIV, p. 196, Tab. Dili, figg. 1406-1408. 



