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conical, and armed with a few teeth on the inner surface; the maxillae are short, straight, 
and enlarged and rounded at the extremity; the palpi are moderately long, and are 
terminated by a curved, pectinated claw. These parts have a red-brown hue, the maxillae 
being the palest, and the palpi the darkest at their articulations. The lip is nearly quadrate, 
being rather broader at the base than at the apex, and is of a dark-brown colour. The 
sternum is heart-shaped, clothed with grayish hairs, and is of a red-brown hue, with an oval 
space in the middle bounded by a fine, dentated, brown-black line, and has spots of the same hue 
on the lateral margins. The legs are long, moderately robust, provided with hairs and sessile 
spines, and are of a red-brown hue, with dark-brown streaks, spots, and annuli. The abdomen 
is oviform, hairy, convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a 
reddish-brown colour, the under part being the palest, and has on each side of the upper part 
a strongly dentated, brownish-black band; these bands taper to the spinners, where they 
unite, and from some of their larger exterior angles rows of brownish-black spots pass 
obliquely to the sides, which are marked with other spots of the same hue ; in the anterior 
part of the space comprised between the dentated, brownish-black bands there is an oblong- 
oval, reddish-brown mark, bounded by a fine black line, having an acute angular point on 
each side, and its posterior extremity bifid; the sexual organs, which are highly developed 
and prominent, have a dark, reddish-brown colour, and that of the branchial opercula is 
brown. 
The male is smaller than the female, and the design formed by the distribution of its 
colours is less distinctly marked. The palpi are of a red-brown colour, the digital joint and 
the outer side of the humeral joint being much the darkest; the digital joint is oval, convex, 
and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are moderately 
developed, not very complex in structure, and of a reddish-brown colour. 
Two adult and two immature females of this Lycosa were received from Mr. R. H. Meade, 
in December, 1856. The two former were discovered by the Rev. O. P. Cambridge under a 
stone, near Pennsylvania Castle, in the Isle of Portland, on the 29th of September, 1854; 
and the two latter were captured in July, 1854, in Morden Park, near Bloxworth House, 
Dorsetshire, by the same gentleman, who also took an adult male in the summer of 1858. 
Lycosa allodroma. PI. 1, fig. 7. 
Lycosa allodroma, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 330. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band v, p. 106, tab. 172, figs. 410, 411. 
— — 1 Koch, Uebersicht des Arachn. Syst. erstes Heft, p. 22. 
— — Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 118. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vii, 
p. 258. 
— cinerea, Sand., Yet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 190. 
