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The female of the next following species, L. agrestis Westr., 

 I cannot distinguish from L. agricola ? by any other mark than 

 that the pale lateral band on each side on the cephalothorax is in 

 Tj. agrestis $ continuous, but in L. agricola resolved into spots. That 

 the cephalothorax in L. agricola is broader than in L. agrestis, as 

 Westking states, I have not, after the comparison of a tolerably 

 large number of specimens of both species, been able to discover. 

 Examples are occasionally met with, of which it is, at least to me, 

 a matter of doubt, to which of the two species they belong. The 

 lateral bands in fact on the cephalothorax are indeed in such ex- 

 amples continuous, but coarsely indented or notched in the upper 

 edge, and these notches are sometimes continued downwards as fine 

 dark lines, in which case the continuity of the band is in reality 

 broken. The males are distinguished by the c? of L. agrestis hav- 

 ing all the tarsi black at the extremity only, and the palpi above 

 only black-haired, whereas in L. agricola the tarsi of the first pair 

 are black, only at the base a little yellowish, and the three subse- 

 quent pairs of tarsi uniformly yellowish, and the patellar joint and 

 the extremity of the femoral joint of the palpi are white-hairy above. 

 These characteristics, first recorded by L. Koch, I have found con- 

 firmed in a d" of each species from Germany, which 1 have received 

 from that arachnologist; some males, which I have captured here in 

 Sweden in company with L. agricola and L. agrestis, all, according 

 to these diagnostics, belong to L. agrestis. Westrincx appears not 

 to have been acquainted with any really typical males of L. agri- 

 cola; he says in fact of the male of that species: "tarsi antici ex- 

 trorsum plerumque ab apice versus medium nigri, reliqui tarsi mi- 

 nus late nigri". And of two males, which he sent me under the 

 name of L. arenaria, the one precisely agrees with my specimens 

 of L. agrestis d\ and has also by Dr L. Koch, to whom I sent it, 

 been declared to belong to his L. decipiens (= L. agrestis Westr.), 

 whereas in the other, which I refer to L. arenaria, although the palpi 

 have only a black (not also a white) hairy covering, the tarsi of the 

 1 st pair are black, a little yellowish only at the base, the remain- 

 ing tarsi yellowish, but dark at the extreme apex. Also in an 

 an unusually dark form from Gotland, which is probably only a va- 

 riety of L. agricola, and to which we shall presently return, the 

 tarsi are indeed in colour such as in the typical L. agricola, but the 

 palpi on the upper side do not in general exhibit the least traces 

 of white hair, but are entirely black-haired as in L. agrestis. One 



