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C. Koch and L. obscnm Blackw.) belong. Sundevall has also con- 

 founded L. pulfata with L. paludicola: his "feminse ininores, verisi- 

 militer prematura, long, thoracis 2'/ 2 raillim." (loc. cit , p. 180), 

 evidently belong to L. pidlata. Walckenaee indeed, in H. N. d. 

 Ins. Apt., I, p. 334, takes up "L. fumigate? as a separate species, but 

 clearly only after C. Koch , whose Jj. fumigata, as is known , is iden- 

 tical with L paludicola (Clekck). Walckenaeb does not say either 

 that he had himself ever seen his "L. fumigata", or that it is met 

 with in France. — Ar. littoralis De Geer, to which De Geee erro- 

 neously refers Ar. paludicola Clerck, and which Walckenakr cites 

 under L. paludicola, does not belong to this, but to the preceding 

 species, L. amentata {L. paludicola C. Koch). Another synonym 

 given by him (loc. cit., IV, p. 396), L. latitat™ Blackw., does not 

 belong to the genus Lycosa sensu strict, at all, but to Pirata Sund. 

 (Potamia C. Koch). Concerning this last mentioned species, see far- 

 ther on under L. piratica Westr. 



L. paludicola is easily distinguished from L. amentata, not only 

 by its darker colour, by the indistinctness of the rings on the legs, 

 by the different form and colour of the longitudinal bands on the 

 cephalothorax, by the coarser and longer hair, etc., but also by its 

 comparatively shorter legs (the cephalothorax being very nearly as 

 long as patella + tibia of the 4 th pair) and an entirely different 

 form of the organs of copulation. The vulva consists of a narrow, 

 long area or furrow, bounded by an elevated edge and rounded at 

 its anterior extremity, which area behind, near the rima genitalis, 

 is rapidly dilated on both sides and there provided with a large fo- 

 vea. The bulbus genitalis has on the under side of its tumid, red- 

 dish brown base a conspicuous single tooth; the usual spine extends 

 obliquely forwards and outwards, is reddish, brown, compressed and, 

 viewed from the under side of the bulbus, flattened, gradually and 

 slightly increasing in breadth from the base to the middle, obliquely 

 pointed and, towards the apex, slightly curved backwards. 



(Pag. 501.) 15. L. pullata [= Lycosa pullala (Clerck) 1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Akaneus pullatus Clerck., Sv. Spindl., p. 104, PI. 5, tab. 7. 

 1789. Aranea pullata Ouv., Encycl. Meth., IV, p. 218. 

 ?1825. Lycosa paludicola Walck., Faune Fran?., Arachn., p. 26 (ad parti) 

 1833. „ LIGNARIA C. Koch, m Herr.-Soimsff., Deutscbl. Ins., 120, 



9, 10 (sec. Koch, Die Aracbn.). 

 1833. „ paludicola Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskrifn., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1832, p. 179 (ad part. : "feminre minores"). 



