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LYCOSIDiE. 
The legs are provided with hairs and long spines, and have a brownish-yellow 
hue, with brown streaks, spots, and annuli; the first pair is the longest, then the second, 
and the third pair is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by three claws; the two 
superior ones are curved and pectinated, and the inferior one is inflected near its base. 
The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and have a curved, pectinated claw at their 
extremity. The cephalo-thorax is oval, convex, glossy, with an indentation in the medial 
line; it is of a dark-brown colour, the margins, a band in the posterior region, which is bifid 
before, and a short streak behind each lateral eye of the posterior row, being of a yellow- 
brown hue; on the frontal margin, immediately below the eyes, there are two vertical, brown 
streaks whose superior extremity is the broadest. The falces are subcylindrical, vertical, and, 
with the maxillae, of a brownish-yellow colour; a brown streak, which seems like a continua¬ 
tion of those on the frontal margin, extending along their entire length. The lip and sternum 
are of a dark-brown hue, a longitudinal line in the middle of the latter, which is heart-shaped, 
and the apex of the former being of a yellowish-brown colour. The abdomen is oviform, 
tapering to the spinners; it is convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax, 
and of a dark-brown colour; in the medial line of the anterior extremity of the upper part 
there is an obscure, oval, yellowish-brown spot, encompassed by a dark-brown line, which is 
bounded by a pale-yellow one, and between the oval spot and the spinners there is a series of 
small, yellowish-brown spots, that which terminates the series at the coccyx being the palest 
and most conspicuous ; on the upper part of each side there are three pale-yellow lines; the 
anterior one is longitudinal, and the two succeeding ones are oblique; the branchial opercula 
have a brownish-yellow colour, and a line of the same hue extends from each to the spinners. 
White and yellowish-white scale-like hairs occur on various parts of this spider. 
The male bears a close resemblance to the female, but is somewhat smaller and darker 
colqured. The radial joint of the palpi is much larger than the cubital; it has a long process 
at its base, on the outer side, which is depressed and rounded at the extremity, with a small, 
acute projection at its superior surface, and a large, obtuse apophysis projects from the 
extremity of the joint, on the under side ; the digital joint is pyriform, with a large lobe near 
its base, on the inner side, and has a very dark-brown hue; it is convex, and hairy externally, 
concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed, not very compli¬ 
cated in structure, prominent at the base, somewhat pointed at the extremity, and of a dark- 
brown colour, with pale, reddish-brown intermixed. 
Young females of this species were captured by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, at Lyndhurst, 
in the New Forest, in September, 1858. 
