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Sch^ffer's account of the position of the eyes: "situs oculorum 

 (/wittuor linearum", an expression which Sch^ffer neither has used 

 nor could use with regard to any Lycosa Latr. ') 



In O.v ramosus or $ph. variegatws C. Koch the colour is very 

 variable; nevertheless in this species the face appears always to have 

 three white longitudinal lines, the middle one of which, at the margin 

 of the clypeus, dilates itself into a triangular patch: the two lateral 

 lines diverge downwards. The male's palpi are very characteristic: 

 the lamina is broad and irregularly pear-formed dilated on the 

 inner side towards the base, almost double as long as the patellar 

 and tibial joints taken together; these joints are both very short, 

 not longer than they are broad. The patellar joint has on the 

 outer side a process directed outward and somewhat forward, which 

 is shorter than the patellar joint itself; the tibial joint is not longer 

 than the patellar joint, and is on its under side armed with a short 

 and pretty coarse process directed downwards and forwards. In £ 

 the cephalothorax is considerably longer than the tibia + patella of the 

 4 h pair, and about equal to the tibia + patella of the 2 nd pair; the 

 vulva consists of a short, longitudinal costa, narrowing in front, on 

 each side of and close to the hinder extremity of which there is 

 an almost round and tolerably deep fovea, limited by the costa and 

 a c-shaped. elevated border. The two pale middle bands of the cepha- 

 lothorax diverge but slightly forwards, and a third pale central band, 

 situated on the anterior part of the cephalothorax, may usually be 

 perceived shooting in between them; at the posterior extremity they 

 curve outwards almost in the form of an )(, uniting with the pale 

 marginal bands of the cephalothorax (Conf. Koch's figure). 



In all the specimens of 0. lineatus that I have seen, the face 

 has two longitudinal dark bands, which are continued as two dark 

 lines along the mandibles. Conf. Latreille's description. The lamina 

 of the male's palpi has the same form as in O. ramosus, but is 

 only a little longer than the patellar + tibial joints put together. 

 The patellar joint is hardly longer than it is broad, without any 

 process; the tibial joint is as least double as long as the patellar 

 joint: it has at the very base, on the outer side, downwards (under 



1) G(EZE had, it is true, previously to Panzer, and already in 1778, in Te- 

 ster's Naturgesch. d. Spinnen", p. 297, given the name Ar. ramosa to this spider j 

 but as Gckze did not consistently apply the Linnean method of nomenclature, 

 there is no reason, in assigning priority, to take into account the names he 

 may have employed in that work. Conf. Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 8. 



