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which it is difficult enough to distinguish; it is of a brownish yel- 

 low colour, with in general a darker border, except in the middle, 

 behind; at the anterior extremity, which is a little rounded off, the 

 border is elevated, and the same is the case behind, where the area 

 is truncated, and where its border forms a narrow, high costa, with 

 one or two depressions at the angles on both sides. Two transverse 

 depressions, one towards the apex in front, and one near the poste- 

 rior border, are usually visible, and the intermediate area exhibits 

 two or four somewhat indistinct longitudinal furrows (Westring thinks 

 he has seen 3 or 5). — In L. nigriceps the head is higher and 

 more projecting, and its sides more parallel than in any other Ly- 

 cosa that I know of: the typical form of the cephalothorax of the 

 genus appears to have reached its highest perfection in this species. 



The three olive- or rusty-yellow bands on the cephalothorax 

 are much broader than for example in L. palustris, especially the 

 central one, which is narrower behind and terminates abruptly in 

 front, without being continued as a fine pointed line between the 4 

 posterior eyes. The hairy clothing of this band is very scanty or 

 altogether wanting. Most generally the legs are of a uniform olive- 

 or rusty-yellow colour, with only inconsiderable dark spots above, to- 

 wards the base; but sometimes they are pretty distinctly marked 

 with dark rings. The femoral and patellar joints of the male's palpus 

 are covered above with white hair, the tibial joint and the large, 

 deep-black, shining lamina have only black hair. 



(Pag. 486.) 8. L. nigriceps [= Lycosa nigriceps (Thor.) 1856]. 

 See the preceding species, L. saccigera Westr. 



(Pag. 487.) 9. L. lUOllticola [= Lycosa monticola (Clerck) 1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Aranecs monticolus Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 91, PI. 4, tab. 5. 



1833. Lycosa monticola Scnd., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



? 1837. „ SACCIGERA Walgk., H. N. d. Ins. Apt. I, p. 327 (ad part.). 

 ?1848. „ (Pardosa) MONTICOLA C. Koch, Die Arachn., XV, p. 42, 



f. 1832, p. 175 (ad part). 



Tab. DXV, (ad part..) figg. 1446, 1448. 



1856. 

 1870. 

 1871. 



MONTICOLA Thor., Eec. crit. Aran., p. 50. 



L. Koch, Die Arachn. -fauna Galiz., p. 42. 



Cambr., Descr. of some Brit. Spid., cet., in 

 Transact, of the Linn. Soc, XXVII, p. 398 >). 



l) According to specimens with which I have been favoured by Mr Cambridge. 



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