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convinced that Walckenaer's At. agilis includes this and perhaps 

 some other species of the monticola-gxoxx\>, although Walckenaer 

 in Faune Fran?, (and in his H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 318) appears 

 to have transferred that name, to another larger (5 lines long) spe- 

 cies. This seems to me so much the more probable, as he has nei- 

 ther in his Faune Parisienne nor in Faune Franc, taken up the "L. 

 monticola" and "L. saccigera" described in H. N. d. Ins. Apt., the last- 

 named of which is certainly, at least ad partem, identical with L. 

 tarsalis or palustris. Of the synonyms adduced by him under L. sac- 

 cigera (and L. agilis) , Sundevall's L. monticola, and that merely ad 

 partem, is however the only one which belongs to L. tarsalis or 

 palustris. — Sordelli ') takes up L. agilis Walck. as synonymous with 

 L. cursoria C. Koch, which is probably not true of the L. agilis 

 described in H. N. d. Ins. Apt., even if L. cursoria should be in- 

 cluded in the Ar. agilis of the Faune Parisienne. 



Lycosa paludosa Hahn also certainly belongs to L. tarsalis 

 (palustris); at least the description of the lateral bands on the ce- 

 phalothorax and of the places it inhabits ("marshy localities") suit L. 

 tarsalis better than L. monticola, which perhaps the figure more re- 

 sembles. C. Koch (loc. cit., p. 48) considers L. paludosa Hahn to 

 be the same as L. pullata (Clerck), which is negatived not only by 

 Hahn's figure, but also by his description. Walckenaer takes it up 

 as a synonym to his L. sollers, which appears to me to be a sepa- 

 rate, to me unknown species. At any rate the name paludosa is 

 wrong, for paludosus means "marshy", and would require, if it could 

 be used, to be corrected either into palustris, in which case it would 

 coincide with the Linnean name of the species, or to paludicola (just 

 as Latreille changed Walckenaer's Club, lapidosa into Club, lapidi- 

 cola), in which case it comes into collision with the name paludi- 

 cola already given by Clerck to another Lycosa. 



Concerning L. saccigera "Walck. and L. saccigera Thor., vid. 

 supr., p. 284 under L. saccigera "Westr. As regards L. monticola C. 

 Koch and L. exigua Blackw., see the preceding article, L. monticola 

 Westr. -- The figures of this species in Spid. of Gr. Brit, are utterly 

 irrecognizable. 



I have received from Ohlert numerous examples of his Par- 

 dosa monticola; they all belong to L. tarsalis or palustris. 



l) Sui Eagni Lorabardi (in Atti della Soc. Ital. d. Scienze Nat., XI, fasc. 

 HI), p. 16. 



