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the commonest Lycosa- species in Sweden, appears to me fully cer- 

 tain : Conf. Rec. crit. Ar., p. 60 and 92. The Ar. saccata of most of 

 the other, older writers on the other hand cannot be with certainty 

 identified with this spider: "unusquisque hoc nomen speciei generis 

 Lycosce suae regionis prse ceteris frequenti addidisse videtur, quare 

 plures species diversas verisimiler comprehendit," says Sundevai.l 

 (1833, loc. cit.), and in this he is undoubtedly right. To discover in 

 detail which and how many species have been mixed together under 

 the name of Ar. or Lye. saccata, would probably be impossible. A 

 quite peculiar, considerably smaller species ("c? 2y 3 , ¥ 2 3 /i Lin." 

 C. Koch) is however L saccata C. Koch (Die Arachn., XV, p. 51, 

 Tab. DXVII, figg. 1451, 1452), under which Ar. saccata Linn, and 

 Ar. amentatns Clerck are erroneously cited; this species, which We- 

 strino (as also I in Rec. cit.) supposed to be the same as L. arenaria 

 C. Koch (71. agricola Thor.), and which Blackwall takes up under 

 his 71. saccata = L. amentata, has not yet been met with in Sweden, 

 and cannot therefore retain the Linnean specific name, wherefore 1 

 propose to call it L. hortensis. I have myself found a female of it 

 in Pyrmont, and have received a and a % from Nuremberg from 

 L. Koch. Extremely nearly allied to this L. hortensis both in size 

 and colour, and perhaps only to be distinguished by its somewhat 

 different organs of copulation (of which see below), is a little Ly- 

 cosa, which I have captured at Nice and at Rome, and which I call 

 L. annulata') I have also from Simon received French specimens of 



1) L. annulata N. — Femina. Cephalothorax c:a 2 4 / 5 raillim. longus, paullo plus 

 2 raillim. latus, brevior quam patella + tibia 4:ti paris, olivaceo-fuscus, pilis oli- 

 vaceo-flaventibus tectus, vittis tvibus sub-testaceis longitudinalibus notatus: vitta 

 media sat lata, sulco ordinario fusco geminata, postice acuminata, antice quoque 

 ante sulcum ilium repente angustata et ant forma lineaj angustse versus aream 

 oculoruni procurrenti, aut pone oculos posticos iterum dilatata; vitta laterali su- 

 pra marginem utrinque in maculas plus minus distinctas divulsa. Partes oris te- 

 staceae, nigro-sub-maculatae. Sternum fuscum, albicanti-pilosum. Palpi et pedes 

 olivaceo-testacei, fusco-annulati et -maculati: femorum annuli 4, patellarum sal- 

 tern 1, tibiarum 3 vel (in ped. saltern 4:ti paris) 4, metatarsorum 3 parum di- 

 slinctis, tarsis versus apicem sub-infuscatis ; annulis plerisque in maculas plus minus 

 divulsis. Pedes l:mi paris c:a 7 3 /4, 4:ti paris 11Y 2 millim. longi ideoque cepha- 

 lothorace 4:plo longiores (tibia 2Y 3 , patella + tibia hujus paris 3'/4 millim.); ti- 

 biae anticae subter paribus aculeorum 3 longorum et appressorum ibique prasterea 

 in apice pari 4:to breviore armata?. Abdomen fuscum, pilis olivaceo-testaceis tec- 

 tum et sub-variatum : linea media antica clariore, et serie macularum utrinque 

 clariorum, his in lineas paucas transversas angulatas plus minus distincte binis 

 plerumque conjunctis. Venter pilis olivaceo-cinereis tectus. Vulva aream oblongam 



