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LYCOSIM. 
intersected by obscure, curved, whitish lines, whose extremities alternate with the black spots 
with which it is bordered. 
The male is smaller, darker coloured, and more distinctly marked than the female. Its 
cephalo-thorax has a brownish-black colour, and the broad band in the medial line is whitish. 
The thighs and tibiae of the first pair of legs, and the thighs of the second pair have a very 
dark-brown hue, approaching to black. The colour of the palpi is brownish-black, and the 
humeral joint is abundantly supplied with black hairs on the under side; the cubital and 
radial joints are short, the latter being rather the stronger; the digital joint is oval, convex 
and hairy externally, and concave within, except at the extremity, which is compact and 
pointed; the concavity comprises the palpal organs, which are highly developed, complicated 
in structure, with a strong, prominent, corneous process on the outer side, and are of a dark, 
reddish-brown colour. The black border to the broad yellowish-brown band extending along 
the middle of the upper part of the abdomen usually preserves its continuity, but in some 
instances its posterior half is broken into large spots. 
The customary haunts of this species are woods, pastures, and commons; but it may be 
seen occasionally on the summits of the highest mountains in England and Wales. It pairs in 
May, and in June the female deposits sixty or seventy spherical eggs, of a pale-yellow 
colour, in a globular cocoon of light, yellowish-brown silk, of a compact texture, measuring «f ? ths 
of an inch in diameter. 
M. Walckenaer considers Lycosa rapax to be merely a variety of lycosa vorax (‘ Hist. Nat. 
des Insect. Apt.,’ t. iv, p. 392) ; but, though nearly allied to that species, it differs from it 
in size, structure and colour, and more closely resembles the Lycosa ( Tarantula) yasteinenis of 
M. Koch (‘Die Arachn.,’ B. xiv, p. 187, tab. 501, figs. 1401, 1402. 
Lycosa herbigrada. PI. I, fig. 6. 
Lycosa herbigrada, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xx, 
p. 285. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xx, 
p. 497. 
Length of the female, T ],ths 0 f an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ’th, breadth, -~th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of a posterior leg, £; length of a leg of the third 
pair, jd. 
The two intermediate eyes of the anterior row are rather the smallest. The cephalo- 
thorax is compressed before, depressed and rounded on the sides, and has a slight longitu¬ 
dinal indentation in the medial line; it is of a red-brown colour, the space comprising the 
eyes, a broad, irregular band extending along each side, and a narrow line on each lateral 
margin, having a brown-black hue; the red-brown spaces are covered with grayish hairs, and 
the medial one is abruptly contracted near its anterior extremity. The falces are powerful, 
