525 



1771. ARANEA tarantula Pall., Reise (lurch verschied. Prov. d. Russ. 



Reichs, I, p. 476. 



1806. Lycosa TARENTULA Russia australis Latr. , Gen. Crust, et Ins., 



I, p. 119. 



1822. „ TARANTULA Hahn, Monogr. Aran., 3, Tab. II. 

 1831. „ Latkeillii id., Die Arachn. , I, p. 98, Tab. XXIV, fig. 74. 

 1837. „ rossica Kryn., Araclinogr. Ross. dec. prima, p. 77. 

 1839. „ Latreillii C. Koch, Die Arachn., V, p. 99, Tab. CLXXI, 



fig. 406. 



1841. ,. TARENTULOl'DES SINGORIENSIS Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., 



I, p. 287. 



1841. „ songarensis Eichw., Fauna Caspio-cauc. , p. 241. 



1850. Arctosa Latreillii C. Koch. Uebers. d. Arachn. -Syst. , 5, p. 32. 



1857. Lycosa singoriensis Kolf.nati, Meletem. Entom. VII. Einige 



Arachn. d. Kaukas. Land. , in Bull, de la 

 Soc. Imp. d. Nat, de Moscou, XXX, p. 439. 



The above synonyms probably all refer to the same species, 

 Laxmann's Ar. singoriensis. Krynicki also cites, out of a work to 

 me unknown, "T.ycosa rossica Fisch., Oryctogr. , PI. VI". I have a 

 full-grown female from Bukowina, the cephalothorax of which is 12 

 millim. long, the whole body 24 millim., and which certainly be- 

 longs to this species, although Hahn's and C Koch's descriptions do 

 not in every respect suit it. The cephalothorax is blackish brown 

 with somewhat paler borders and radiating black streaks on both 

 sides: the abdomen seems to have been thickly covered above with 

 hair of a rusty brown colour, which in this specimen is a good deal 

 rubbed off, and in front exhibits some small whitish spots. Be- 

 neath it is black to a considerable height up the sides; the sternum 

 and mandibles are black, the labium and maxilla? also black, but 

 brownish yellow at the apex; the coxa? and trochanters are on the 

 under side brownish black. The thighs are above and on the sides 

 brown, thickly speckled with black; the whole of their under side is 

 of a uniform brownish yellow colour; the brown patella?, are at the 

 sides speckled with black, and black beneath; the tibia? are on the 

 under side of a pale brownish yellow, with a broad black ring at the 

 apex, and of a darker brownish yellow above; the apical ring is 

 continued over the upper side of the tibia also, but encloses there 

 near its extremity a large brownish yellow spot: a couple of small 

 black spots are found nearer the base on the upper side. The fol- 

 lowing joints are darker, the tarsi almost black; the metatarsi have 

 three black rings, which are particularly distinct on the poste- 

 rior legs. The vulva is a small, almost T-shaped area: an elevated 



