322 



1834. LYCOSA CUNEATA C. Koch, in Herr.-Sch^pf., Deutschl. Ins., 122 



17, 18 (sec. Koch, Die Arachn.). 

 1848. „ (Tarantula) vorax id., Die Arachn., XIV, p. 173, Tab. 



CCCCXCIX, figg. 1393, 1394. 

 1851. „ TRABALIS Westr. , Forteckn. etc. , p. 53. 

 1856. Tarentula trabalis Thor., Rec. crit. Aran., p. 61. 

 1867. Tarantula vorax Ohl., Aran. d. Prov. Preuss., p. 140. 



As regards Aran, trabalis Clerck, which C. Koch has errone- 

 ously taken up under his Trochosa trabalis (T. terricola Thor.), see 

 Rec. crit., loc. cit. — Hahn's L. vorax ought in my opinion to be ag- 

 gregated to the species before us, and not to T. pulvemlenta (Clerck) 

 = L. cuneata C. Koch (Die Arachn., XIV. p. 183), to which it is referred 

 by C. Koch. Hahn's species in fact has, according to the figure, par- 

 ticularly distinct pale lateral bands on the cephalothorax, which is 

 even said to be yellowish or whitish brown, with two broad, dark, 

 longitudinal bands. The alleged size of the female, "5 lines," agrees 

 better with T. trabalis (Clerck), nob., than either with Ar. pulveru- 

 . lentus Clerck, cited by Hahn, or with Ar. cuneatus Clerck (L. clavipes 

 C. Koch), which last Hahn's figure else closely resembles. 



"Var. 2" of L. vorax Walck. is without question the male of 

 the next following species, L. tceniata Westr. Of all the names, in- 

 dicating together at least nine different species, some of the genus 

 Tarentula, others of Lycosa, which Walckenaer in H. N. d. Ins. 

 Apt. (I, p. 313, 314; IV, p. 392, 393) has taken up under his L. 

 vorax, only Ar. trabalis Clerck, Lyc. vorax Hahn, L. vorax Sund., 

 L. trabalis id. Q, and L. cuneata C.Koch in Herr.-Sch.eff., Deutschl. 

 Ins., belong to L. trabalis (Clerck), Westr. ; perhaps also L. flavo- 

 lineata Latr. , described, according to Walckenaer, in Nouv. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat., 2 e Ed., XVIII, p. 296, but the description of which I 

 have not seen, should be referred to this species. To give account of 

 each of Walckenaer's other references would be too tedious a pro- 

 ceeding; by means of the index at the end of this work the reader 

 may easily turn to the places, where I have expressed my opinions 

 regarding them. Here I need only remark, that also Lyc. bifasciata 

 C. Koch — of which Dr L. Koch has kindly favoured me with spe- 

 cimens — is a species totally different from all the other species of 

 Lycosa, sensu strict, described C. Koch. 



T. trabalis (Clerck), of which C. Koch has, in Die Arachniden, 

 given particularly good figures, cannot easily be confounded with any 

 other species, unless it be the next following, L. tceniata Westr. or 



