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mens from Bavaria of this Westringian species under the name ofL. cuneata C. Koch, and Cambridge has supplied me with English specimens of T,. rapax Blackw. — L. Gasteinmsis C. Koch is withouta doubt the same species as his L. cuneata: a tooth or angle oneach side of the dark lancet-like spot on the abdomen, whereby L.Gasteinmsis is said to be distinguished from L. cuneata, is usuallyfound even in the Swedish specimens, as also the oblique, alter-nating dark and pale line on the sides of the abdomen, which areshown in C. Koch’s figure of L. Gaste.ine.nsis ?. One of the specimensof L. cuneata C. Koch, which I have received from L. Koch, belongs,according to these characteristics, to T. Gasteinmsis , but differsquite as little from T. puhe.rule.nta , as do the specimens of L. cuneataC. Koch . that are without the tooth on the spot on the backof the abdomen. Zimmermann also places L. Gasteinmsis underT. puherulenta , whereas Ausserer (Die Arachn. Tirols, I, p. 153)considers it to represent a variety of T. trahalis, which is certainlywrong. See Rec. crit Aran., p. 57. — L. cuneata C. Koch in Herr.-Schhjff. , Deutschl. Ins., 122, 17, 18, does not belong to this spe-cies, but to T. trahalis (L. vorax C. Koch), according to C. Kochhimself.

Lyc. ephippium Hahn, which is said to be found "in marshyplaces", is a very uncertain synonym, but it can however hardly beany other than either T. puherulenta , to which it is referred byC. Koch, or else possibly T. cuneata. L. vorax Hahn on the otherhand, which C. Koch aggregates to this species, belongs most prob-ably to T. trahalis. Vid. supr., p. 322.

T. puherulenta is without difficulty distinguished from T. tra-halis and T. aculeata ( L. tceniata ) by its smaller size, and from thefirst by the absence of the pale, sharply defined lateral bands at themargins of the cephalothorax, which distinguish T. trahalis, both cfand ?: generally speaking the female only of T. puherulenta haslateral bands, which are however far less distinct, and of a dark red-dish brown colour. The male is distinguished from the aboutequal-sized T. cuneata, by its fore-tibiae, which are of the ordinaryform, little, if at all, thicker than the other tibiae: the females on thecontrary are often very difficult to distinguish. The comparativelylonger legs (see above, p. 327), the colour approaching more nearlyto brown than grey, as also the more indistinct lateral bands on thecephalothorax, do nevertheless distinguish T. puherulenta $ from the