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which are moderately developed, with a prominent, slightly curved, pointed spine directed 
forwards, and are of a very dark-brown colour, tinged with red. 
In most parts of Great Britain this is a common species. It pairs earlv in spring, and 
the female deposits about fifty spherical eggs, of a pale-yellow colour, not agglutinated 
together, in a lenticular cocoon of compact silk, of a yellowish-brown hue, which measures 
one fifth of an inch in diameter, and is encircled by a light-coloured zone of a slight 
texture. 
Specimens of this spider have been captured by Mr. J. Hardy in Scotland, and by 
Mr. R. Templeton in Ireland. 
LYCOSA LUGUBRIS. PI. II, fig. 10. 
Lycosa lugubris, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 329. 
— — Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 119. 
— -— Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vii, p. 260. 
— sylvicola, Sund., Yet. Acad. Hand!., 1832, p. 176. 
— sylvicultrix, Koch, Die Arachn., Band iii, p. 25, tab. 82, figs. 182, 183. 
— ( Pardosa ) alacris, Koch, Die Arachn., Band xv, p. 39, tab. 514, figs. 1443, 
1444. 
Length of the female, ^ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, jtli; breadth, T ' f th; 
breadth of the abdomen, |th ; length of a posterior leg, j; length of a leg of the third 
pair, 5 „ths. 
The female of this species is frequently mistaken for the female of Lycosa saccata; but 
they differ in various particulars, as may be seen by comparing the descriptions. The cephalo- 
thorax of Lycosa lugubris is of a dark-brown colour, approaching to black, with a yellowish- 
brown band extending along the middle, which gradually increases in breadth from its 
posterior to its anterior extremity, and two obscure, parallel lines of tbe same hue above the 
lateral margins. The falces are powerful, conical, armed with a few teeth on the inngr 
surface, and of a red-brown colour. The sternum is heart-shaped, of a brownish-black hue, 
and is sparingly covered with whitish hairs. The maxillae are of a pale, red-brown colour ; 
and that of the lip is dark-brown, tinged with red. The legs and palpi have a reddish-brown 
hue, with dark-brown annuli, and are provided with hairs and long spines. The abdomen is 
oviform, hairy, rather broader at the posterior than at the anterior extremity, projecting over 
the base of the cephalo-thorax ; its colour is yellowish-brown, the under part being the palest ; 
in front of the upper part, contiguous to the cephalo-thorax, there is a large black mark, of 
an angular form, within the vertex of which there is a tuft of whitish hairs, a smaller one 
occurring on each side of it; in the medial line of the anterior part there is a short, yellowish- 
brown band, obscurely defined by a black border; it is succeeded by several indistinct, 
triangular, black spots, and on each side of them there is a series of black and pale, 3 r ellowish- 
