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34 LYCOSID.E. 
The lateral eyes of the anterior row are smaller than the intermediate ones. The 
cephalo-thorax is glossy, of a dark-brown hue, with a short, obscure, red-brown line in the 
middle of its posterior part, and some white hairs on the lateral margins. The falces are 
conical, armed with a few teeth on the inner surface, and are of a brown hue, tinged with red. 
The maxillae resemble the falces in colour, but are paler; and the lip, which is of a dark- 
brown hue, has a reddish tint at the extremity. The sternum is heart-shaped, and of a 
reddish-brown colour, the margins being the darkest. The legs and palpi have a yellowish- 
brown hue, and are marked with obscure, soot-coloured annuli; the posterior pair of legs is 
the longest, and the other three pairs are nearly equal in length. The abdomen is hairy, 
convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a dark-brown colour, 
tinged with olive, and has a short, obscure, red-brown line at the anterior extremity of the 
upper part, which appears like a prolongation of the one on the cephalo-thorax; a row of 
minute, brilliantly white spots extends along each side of the medial line, and numerous 
white hairs are distributed on the sides and under part ; the sexual organs are black and 
glossy ; and the branchial opercula are of a pale, dull-yellow colour. 
The male is rather smaller than the female, which it closely resembles in colour. The 
palpi are slender, and the radial is longer than the cubital joint; the digital joint is of an 
elongated oval form, convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal 
organs, which are moderately developed, not very complex in structure, with a crescent¬ 
shaped process at the extremity, and are of a reddish-brown colour. 
Females of this species, which appears to connect the terrestrial with the semi-aquatic 
Lycosce, may be found, in the months of May and June, among moss and under stones in 
moist situations in the woods of Denbighshire, with their cocoons attached to their spinners. 
The cocoon is globular, measuring one eighth of an inch in diameter, and is composed of 
compact, white silk, encircled by a narrow zone of a slighter texture; it comprises forty or 
fifty yellow eggs, of a spherical form. 
Lycosa latitans is placed by M. Walckenaer among the synonyma of Lycosa fumigata 
(‘ Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt.,’ tom. iv, p. 395), but on insufficient grounds, as it is very 
much smaller than that species, and differs from it in the design formed by the distribution of 
its colours, which likewise present some diversity. 
Lycosa piratica. PI. II, fig. 16. 
Lycosa piratica, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 339. 
— Hahn, Die Arachn., Band i, p. 107, tab. 27, fig. 80. 
— Sund., Yet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 193. 
— Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 120. 
— Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vii, 
p. 397. 
— ( Potamia ) piratica, Koch, Die Arachn., Band xv, p. 1, tab. 505, figs. 1413 and 
1414. 
•— palustris, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 22. 
