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than the length of the tibia of the 4 th pair; this pair is somewhat 

 more than three times as long as the cephalothorax. In one female 

 that I have measured, the cephalothorax is 5'/, millim. long and 

 3 3 /, millim. broad; the tibia of the 4 th pair is 3 millim., and the 

 patella together with the tibia of that pair 4 3 /., millim. L. pinetorum 

 $ is distinguished from T. aculeata ¥ not only by its black belly and 

 by the slightly different marking of the abdomen (Conf. Westring's 

 description), but also by its brownish-yellow colour having a tinge 

 of green or olive, by its more distinct rings on the legs, which are 

 shorter and coarser, by the mandibles being as long as the tibiae of 

 the 1 st pair etc. From $ of T. inguilina, which also has a black 

 belly, it is easily distinguished by the form of the vulva, which in 

 T. pinetorum consists of a very small triangular fovea rounded at 

 the anterior extremity, with a low narrow septum at the bottom, and 

 terminated posteriorly by a transverse costa depressed in the middle, 

 almost exactly as in T. aculeata, trabalis, pulverulenta and cuneata. 



Another, somewhat smaller, but nearly related species with black 

 belly, is Lycosa albo-fasciata Brulle 1832 ') or L. numida Luc. 2 ), 

 which is identical with 7>. sagittata C. Koch 3 ) and, according to ori- 

 ginal specimens from Dalmatia, which I have received from Dr Red- 

 tenbacher, with the spider which Doleschall 4 ) mentions under the 

 name of "L. ocellaris Rossi". To the same species probably belongs 

 L. punctiventris Dolesch. 5 ), and without a doubt also L. albo-cincta 

 Blackw. °) The black belly of T. albo-fasciata or numida has how- 



1) Exped. scient. de Moree, Zool., II, p. 54, PI. XXVIII, fig. 7. "... Ce- 

 phalothorax parcouru dans toute sa longueur, a partir des deux yeux de la seconde 

 rangee, par une bande assez large de poils grisatres; les cotes sont noirs et cou- 

 verts de poils d'un gris roux. Abdomen noir et velu, orne d'une large bande de 

 la couleur de celle du cephalothorax, dont elle semble etre la continuation; cette 

 bande en renferme a sa base une autre de couleur noire et de la longueur du tiers 

 de l'abdomen. Chacun des cotes de l'abdomen est marque d'une pareille bande, 

 plus e'troite, qui s'elargit un peu a l'extremite; les poils de ces bandes laterales 

 sont beau coup plus blancs que ceux de la bande du milieu: toutes les trois abou- 

 tissent, sans se toucher cependant, a l'extremite de l'abdomen, un peu endessous. 

 La piece sternale est d'un noir luisant. . . . Male." (Brulle, loc. cit.). 



2) Explor. de l'Algerie, Arachn., p. 114, PI. 3, fig, 5. 



3) Die Arachn., XIV, p. 177, Tab. CCCCXCLX, fig. 1395. — L. sagittata Hentz 

 (Descr. and fig. of the Aran, of the U. S., in Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist., IV, p. 391, 

 PI. XVIII, figg. 3, 4) is an entirely different species, but probably also a Tarentula. 



4) System. Verzeichn. etc., p. 628 (9). 5) Ibid., p. 641 (22). 



6) Notes on a collect, of Spid. made in Sicily ... by E. P. Wright, with a 

 list of species and descr. etc. by J. Blackwall, in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 



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