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individuals. It is found in Cheshire, Lancashire, and Denbighshire, frequenting sandy districts 
on the sea-coast. 
Lycosa picta has been taken in Scotland by Mr. J. Hardy, and in Ireland by Mr. R. 
Templeton. 
Lycosa saccata. PI. II, fig. 9. 
Lycosa saccata, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 326. 
— — Hahn, Die Arachn., Band i, p. 108, tab. 27, fig. 81. 
— — Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 120. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vii, p. 259. 
— ( Pardosa ) saccata, Koch, Die Arachn., Band xv, p. 51, tab. 517, figs. 1451, 1452. 
— amentata, Sund., Yet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 177. 
Titulus 25, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl., De Aran., p. 77, tab. 1, fig. 25. 
Length of the female, jd of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, | 5 ths; breadth, jth; 
breadth of the abdomen, ith; length of a posterior leg, ^ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, |ths. 
The cephalo-thorax is of a dark-brown colour, with yellowish-brown margins, and a band 
of the same hue extending along the middle; the anterior part of this band is abruptly 
enlarged, and the posterior part terminates in a point. The falces are powerful, conical, 
armed with a few teeth on the inner surface, and of a reddish-brown colour, being darkest 
at the extremity. The sternum is heart-shaped, of a very dark-brown hue, and is thinly 
covered with whitish hairs. The maxillae are' of a pale, reddish-brown colour, and the lip 
has a dark-brown hue, tinged with red. The legs and palpi are of a reddish-brown colour, 
with dark-brown annuli, and are furnished with hairs and long spines. The abdomen is 
oviform, hairy, rather broader at the posterior than at the anterior extremity, convex above, 
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 
yellowish-white hairs, a smaller tuft occupying a place on each side of it; a short, longi¬ 
tudinal, yellowish-brown band, obscurely defined by a black border, succeeds to this mark, 
and a series of irregular black and pale, yellowish-brown spots, disposed alternately, occurs on 
each side of the medial line, both of which converge to the spinners; in the interval between 
these series there are a few minute black spots, and the sides are mottled with black; the 
branchial opercula are of a dark-brown colour. 
The male is smaller and darker coloured than the female, but the annuli on the legs are 
less distinct. The palpi are black; the cubital and radial joints are short, the latter, which 
is the larger, being amply provided with black hairs; the digital joint is oval, convex, and 
hairy externally, and concave within, at the base; this concavity comprises the palpal organs, 
