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extremity, is a fovea limited outwards by a more or less distinct 

 Costa. The whole area is broader behind than before, not of equal 

 breadth throughout, as in L. amentata. The palpi of the male have 

 almost the same form as those of L. amentata cf ; the patellar and 

 femoral joints are yellowish, white-haired above, the two next joints 

 are black, and black-haired above; the spine on the under side of 

 the bulbus is short, scarcely reaching more than to the middle of the 

 bulbus; it is blunt at the extremity, and directed outward and some- 

 what forward; at is base, outwards or backwards, it is dilated into 

 a tubercle or tooth directed backwards. 



In L. anmdata n. the size and the colour is the same as in 

 L. hortensis: even the vulva is so similar to that of L. hortensis, that 

 I can see no other difference, than that its septum is dilated back- 

 wards more gradually, and provided with a longitudinal depression or 

 furrow; but the male's palpi are very remarkable, for the ordinary 

 spine on the under side of the bidbus is absent, and in its place ap- 

 pears only a small blunt tubercle (see above, p. 300, the foot-note). 



L. morosa L. Koch (Die Arachn.-Fauna Galiz., p. 47) from 

 southern Germany, Bohemia, Galizia and Spain, is very like L. 

 amentata both in size and in marking, but is distinguished from it 

 by, among other things, the cephalothorax having around the central 

 furrow a large, star-shaped paler patch, which, contrary to what is 

 usually the case in L. amentata (and in L. hortensis and L. annu- 

 lata), is not continued forwards as a longitudinal band first dimi- 

 nishing in width in front of that furrow and then dilating again be- 

 hind the eyes. The vulva in L. morosa is totally unlike that of L. 

 amentata, having the form of "little pointed arch, which encloses a 

 shining, arched surface, broader behind" (L. Koch, loc. cit. , p. 47). 

 The male of L. morosa is unknown; a 9 ac l- I nave received from 

 Dr Koch 1 ). 



l) Among some undetermined spiders from Italy sent me by Prof. Cane- 

 STRINI, is a Lycosa, which is very closely related to L. morosa, and the descrip- 

 tion of which may be appropriately inserted here: I call it L. strenua. 



Lycosa strenua N., nigricans, dense cinerascenti- vel testaceo-pilosa, cepha- 

 lothorace breviore quam patella cum tibia 4:ti paris, latitudine maxima paullo 

 minore quam longit. tibiae 4:ti paris, macula dorsuali magna testacea, antice V brevi 

 vel semicirculo testaceo aucta, vittaque ad marginem utrinque ex maculis testa- 

 ceis formata; palpis et pedibus testaceis, nigro-annulatis, tibiis anterioribus subter 

 versus basin aculeis longis et appressis armatis. — ? ad. Long. c:a 8 millim. 



Cephalothorax c:a 3 2 / 3 millim. longus, 3 millim. latus, quam patella + tibia 

 4:ti paris brevior multo, latitudine maxima longitudinein tibiae ejusdem paris non 



