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(Pag. 522). 25. I. leopardus [= Plrata leopardu* (Scnd.) 1833.] 



Stfti.: 1833. Lycosa leopakdus Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1832, p. 189. 



1841. „ cambrica Blackw., The differ, in the numh. of eyes, cel., 



p. 614. 



1851. „ LEOPARDUS Wkstr., Fbrteckn. etc., p. 54. 

 1856. Arctosa leopardus Tiior., Eec. crit. Aran., p. 111. 

 1861. Lycosa cambrica Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 32, PI. II, 



fig. 14. 



1870. TROCHOSA LEOPARDUS Tiior., On Eur. Spid., p. 193. 



It is possible, that also Arctosa farinosa C. Koch (Die Arachn. 

 XIV, p. 127, Tab. CCCCLXXXVIII, fig. 1360), which Westring loc. 

 cit. has, with an interrogation, taken up under this species, really 

 belongs to it: but excepting the legs, there is nothing in Koch's figure, 

 that appears to me to resemble "L. leopardus". — This species is met 

 with also in Germany: I have myself caught a cf at Pyrmont, and 

 I have been by v. Kempelen obliged with specimens from Austria. 

 In England I have captured it in the vicinity of London, and I 



dimidia mandibula; facies mandibulas versus multo latior, lateribus convexis. 

 Sternum nigricans," cinerascenti-pilosum. Oculorum series antica manifeste bre- 

 vior quam media, vix procurva, fere recta; oculi ejus medii majores multo quam 

 laterales, et inter se paullo magis quam ab his remoti; oculi seriei mediae dimi- 

 dia circiter diametro sua a lateralibus anticis distantes. Mandibula? seque longa? 

 ac tarsi pedum l:mi paris, fusco-testacea?, apice nigra?. Maxillae et labium fusco- 

 testacea. Palpi et pedes fusco-testacei, annulis nigricantibus ; pedes 4:ti paris 1572 

 millim. longi ideoque cephalothorace paullo plus 3:plo longiores : tibia horum pedum 

 Zy 2 > patella + tibia b 2 / 3 millim.; pedes l:mi paris plus 14 millim. longi. Annuli 

 pedum nigricantes , interstitiis angustioribus cinereo-testaceis ; coxa? fusca?, ad basin 

 clariores; annuli femorum4, angustiores , patellarum 1, tibiarum 3, metatarsorum 

 3; tarsi apice infuscati. Abdomen supra in fundo cinereo-nigricans, in lateribus 

 infra fusco- et sub-testaceo-variatus, dense olivaceo- vel sub-testaceo-pilosus et sub- 

 nebulosus, vestigiis punctorum vel macularum clariorum utriuque in dorso ; ventre 

 luteo, umbra fusca longitudiuali utrinque. Area vulva? sat parva, antice rotundata, 

 nigro-fusca, impressione vel fovea media oblonga augusta postice; anguli area? po- 

 stici utrinque apud hanc foveam late emarginati simt, et paullo pone eos, ad 

 rimam genitalem, adest costa transversa, sub-procurva , qua? cum linea tenui ele- 

 vata longitudinali sive septo per foveam illam ducto in figuram littera? i sub- 

 similem conjimcta est. 



Exemplum femineum adultum ex Italia mecum communicavit Cel. Prof. 

 Canestrini; feminam juniorem ex Dalmatia possideo, a Cel. Com. E. Keyser- 

 LING dono mihi datam. — Ad colorem cum Lyc. amentata similitudinem quan- 

 dum ostendit hsc species, sed major est, et non ad Lycosas, sed ad Tarentulas 

 referenda. 



