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English: John Blackwall, F.L.S., A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke 1861-1864 Plate 1

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Lycosidae

• 1 Atypus sulzeri = Atypus piceus = Atypus affinis Eichwald
• 2 Lycosa agretyca = Trochosa terricola Thorell
• 3 Lycosa campestris Walck. = Trochosa ruricola (deGeer)
• 4 Lycosa andrenivora = Alopecosa barbipes (Sundevall)
• 5 Lycosa rapax Bl.= Alopecosa pulverulenta (Clerck)
• 6. Lycosa herbigrada Bl., = Tarentula carinata Oliv. in Bristowe, = Pardosa palustris (Linn.) form herbigrada (a heathland form).
• 7. Lycosa allodroma Walck., = Arctosa cinerea (Fabricius)
• 8. Lycosa picta Hahn, = Arctosa perita (Latreille)

Note:A history of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland.

London, Printed for the Ray Society, 1860-1864. 2 volumes. Folio (365 x 265mm). pp. vi, 384, with 29 handcoloured lithographed plates. One of the most beautiful iconographies on spiders. 'They have retained their desirability chiefly because of the excellence of their plates. There are nearly 500 coloured illustrations of 304 species of spiders, and no other book approaches this. There can be no surprise that the book has always been regarded as a really great pioneering effort, a foundation on which the whole study of British Spiders has rested.' (Savory, Spiders, Men and Scorpions p. 65). B.M.(N.H.) I, 169; Nissen ZBI, 380.