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bonensis or some other species with the belly of a uniform black 

 colour; but what Linn.eus also in this edition says about the effects 

 of the bite of his Ar. tarantula and of its haunts, shows that he 

 had principally the Apulian Tarantula in view. — That he had him- 

 self, at the time of publishing the 10: th edition of Syst. Nat., seen 

 any specimen of his Ar. tarantula, is hardly probable, as he has not 

 there given any description of it. He himself expresses the suspi- 

 cion, that several species may have been confounded under the "Ta- 

 rantula" of the older authors (Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, I, n, p. 1035). 



The vulva is formed of a tolerably large, somewhat transverse, 

 blackish brown area, rounded off at the sides and drawn out in 

 front into a blunt point, which area along the middle exhibits three 

 shallow furrows, almost forming a narrow W, of which the middle 

 one is longest and broadest: these furrows bound two slight, almost 

 lanceolate elevations, the apices of which are directed backwards. 

 The breadth of the whole area is as great as that of the tibiae of the 

 first pair. The under side of the thighs has in the middle a broad, 

 transverse, pure-black spot, and is also black at the apex; moreover 

 it presents a small, more or less distinct black spot close to the base. 



Though Walckenaer in his Tabl. d. Aran, has not given any 

 description of his Lye. tarantula, it is nevertheless through his 

 citations and other remarks sufficiently determined, to justify our 

 placing it among the synonyms of T. fascii-ventris. 



(Pag. 510.) Tarentula narbonensis. 



Tarentula narbonensis (Latb.) 1806. 



Syn.: 1794. Aranea tarantula Dobth., Observ. on the struct, and cecon. of 



some cur. spec, of Aran., in Transact, of the 

 Linn. Soc, II, p. 88. 

 1806. Lycosa tarentula narbonensis Latr.. Gen. Crust, et Ins., I, p. 119. 

 181.. „ melanogaster id., in N<>uv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 2® Ed., 



XVIII, p. 291 (sec. Walck. et Dir.). 

 1825. „ narbonensis Walck., Faune Fran?., Arachn. , p. 12, PI. 



1 , figg. 1—4. 



1835. „ tarentula Duf. , Observ. sur la Tarentule, in Ann. d. Sc. 



Nat., 2 Se"r., Zool., Ill, p. 97, PI. 5, fig. 1. 



1836. „ PR^EGRANDIS C. Koch, Die Arachn., Ill, p. 22, Tab. LXXXI, 



fig. 180. 



1837. „ TARENTULA NARBONENSIS Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 



282; Atlas, PI. 8, figg. ID, IE. 

 1837. „ „ HISPANICA id., ibid., p. 283. 



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