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(Pag. 493.) 11. L. lignaria [= Lycosa Ugnaria (Olerck) 1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus lignarius Clerck, Sv. Spindl., p. 90, PI. 4, tab. 4. 



1833. Lycosa lignarius Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1832, p. 174. 

 1856. „ lignaria Thor. , Eec. crit. Aran. , p. 47, 48. 



This large and handsome species, which is evidently a Lei- 

 monia C. Kocn, and is easily distinguished from all other Swedish 

 Lycosce by its black and white speckled body and by its long legs, 

 thickly annulated in white and black, is rather nearly allied to L. 

 blanda C. Koch (Die Arachn., XV, p. 21, Tab. DX, figg. 1428— 

 1430), to which I had erroneously referred it loc. cit. (though with 

 an interrogation). C. Koch's fig. 1429, with the middle band on the 

 cephalothorax broad at its anterior extremity, but much narrowed 

 in front of the central furrow, bears indeed a close resemblance 

 to the ordinary specimens of L. Ugnaria. The lateral bands are 

 however in L. Ugnaria not continuous, but (always?) resolved into 

 spots; the central band usually exhibits, immediately in front of the 

 contracted part, two black spots, and is at the anterior extremity 

 produced into three more or less distinct points. I cannot recollect 

 having seen any specimens of L. lignaria, where the central band of 

 the cephalothorax has been spindle-formed, tapering equably forwards, 

 as in C. Koch's figg. 1428 and 1430 of L. blanda. In large indi- 

 viduals the tibia + patella of the 4 th pair is 5, the cephalothorax 

 4 millim. long. — Lj. blanda is said to be met with in pine-woods, 

 as is also the case with L. Ugnaria; but I have never seen this latter 

 species in damp, but in dry, sunny localities. 



L. Ugnaria is distinguished from most hitherto known Lycosce 

 by having on the under side of the tibiae of the anterior legs four 

 pairs of long spines, independently of the shorter pair at the extre- 

 mity. The male's bulbus genitalis is (as in L. septentrionalis) distin- 

 guished by the absence of the ordinary spine directed obliquely for- 



secundum totam fere longitudinem impressione postice sub-dilatata excavata, an- 

 giitis posticis dilatatis sub-deflexis, et deplanatis quidem, sed vix impressis. Mas 

 defectu spinse ordinarise subter in bulbo, ut et metatarsis anticis non incrassatis 

 a <$ L. palustris ceterorumque facile distiguitur. Var. /? differt quoque forma 

 vittae cephalothoracis paiulo aliter conformatse, saltern interdurn. 



Exempla duo utriusque sexus ex Enare Lapponis mecum communicavit Cel. 

 Al. v. Nordmann. — Feniinas duas varietatis (S vidi, alteram in Herjeadalen 

 Sneciaj inventam, alteram ad Valders Norvegise a Cel. G. Eisen captam. 



