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AGELENIDiE. 
Textrix lycosina. PI. XII, fig. 110. 
Textrix lycosina, Sund., Consp. Arachn., p. 19. 
— — Koch, Uebers, des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 14. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band viii, p. 46, tab. 266, figs. 623, 624. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 336. 
— agilis, Blackw., Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., third series, vol. iii, p. 109. 
— — Blackw., Research, in Zool., p. 348, pi. 3, figs. 1, 2. 
Agelena lycosina, Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1831, p. 130. 
Tegenaria lycosina, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 15. 
Titulus 20, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl., De Aran., p. 67, tab. 1, fig. 20. 
Length of the female, ^ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, |th, breadth, T jth; 
breadth of the abdomen, gth; length of a posterior leg, 5 7 5 ths ; length of a leg of the third 
pair, „ths. 
The cephalo-thorax is compressed, elongated, and prominent before, and the sides, 
which are rounded, depressed, and glossy, are marked with furrows converging towards 
a narrow indentation in the medial line; it is of a dark, brownish-black colour, with a 
yellowish-white band of short hairs extending along the middle, and numerous long, black 
hairs in front. The falces are strong, conical, armed with a few teeth on the inner surface, 
and inclined towards the sternum, which is heart-shaped. These parts, with the maxillae and 
lip, have a brownish-black hue, the two latter organs being much the palest, particularly 
at their extremities. The legs are provided with hairs, and numerous erect, black spines, and 
are of a light-brown colour, with brownish-black annuli; each tarsus is terminated by three 
claws; the two superior ones are curved and deeply pectinated, and the inferior one is 
inflected near its base, which is furnished with two pairs of small teeth. The palpi resemble 
the legs in colour, and have a slender, curved, pectinated claw at their extremity. The 
abdomen is oviform, thickly covered with hairs, convex above, and projects a little over the 
base of the cephalo-thorax; the upper part is black, with a broad, dentated, yellowish-white 
band extending along the middle; the anterior part of the band comprises four small, 
irregular, black spots, forming a parallelogram; the sides are mottled with yellowish-white, 
and the under part, which has a reddish-brown tint, is sparingly spotted with black and 
yellowish-white; the superior spinners are triarticulate, much longer than the rest, and have 
the spinning-tubes disposed on the inferior surface of the terminal joint; their colour 
and that of the intermediate spinners is red-brown, and the inferior ones are black; a small, 
prominent, red-brown process is connected with the posterior margin of the sexual organs; 
and the branchial opercula have a yellowish-white tint. 
The male, though smaller and darker than the female, resembles her in the design 
formed by the distribution of its colours. The cubital and radial joints of its palpi, which 
are short, are supplied with some long, black bristles, and the latter projects a strong. 
