AEANEAE 433 



1. LYCOSA Latreille. Head very high and with sloping sides; 

 labium longer than broad; hinder 2 pairs of eyes not on the margin 

 of the head; legs usually long and with long spines: about 50 American 

 species. 



L. helluo Walckenaer (L. nidicola Emerton). Length 18 mm.; long- 

 est legs 25 mm.; color dull yellow or greenish-brown, with 3 narrow 

 yellow stripes on the cephalothorax and a pointed stripe on the front 

 half of the abdomen : common under stones in moist meadows and woods ; 

 the female is seen with her cocoon in early summer. 



L. avida Walck. (L. communis Em.) (Fig. 682). Length 10 mm.; 

 longest legs 18 mm. ; color from gray to black, with 3 light stripes on the 

 cephalothorax and a pair of broad median stripes meeting behind on the 

 abdomen: common in pastures, the female is carry- 

 ing her cocoon in early summer. 



L. rabida Walck. (L. scutulata Hentz). Length 

 ^ mm.; longest legs 26 mm.; cephalothorax dark 

 gray in color, with 3 light stripes; abdomen with a 

 wide median stripe and several light and dark lines 

 at each side. 



L. carolinensis Walck. One of our largest 

 spiders, sometimes over 35 mm. long with legs 

 spreading 75 mm. ; body covered with thick hair and 

 brown above and black beneath in color: on the 

 ground or in its hole, a deep cylindrical pit, in which 

 the eggs are hidden. 



L " P* ei Marx V* anmieola Scudder). Sand 

 spiders. Length 18 mm.; color of male gray or sand 

 color, with a spot in the middle of the abdomen, female gray or slate 

 color, with a broad, serrate band on the abdomen: the female lives in 

 a hole 10 inches deep, around the mouth of which is sometimes a low 

 turret of sticks. 



2. TROCHOSA Koch. Legs quite short; first row of eyes about as 

 long as the second, which is not quite as long as the third row: 4 

 American species. 



T. cinerca (Fabricius). Length 12 mm.; body gray or sand color 

 with small spots : common on beaches and in sandy fields. 



3. PARDOSA Koch. Slender spiders with long legs; labium at least 

 as broad as long; front row of eyes shorter than the second; second and 

 third pair of eyes large and near the lateral margin of the head: 30 

 American species. 



P. nigropalpis Emerton. Length 6 mm.; color black with a wide, 

 irregular median area; pedipalps of male black: on the ground. 



