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attached to the hinder part of her abdomen. When deprived 

 of it she remains near; and, if allowed, she grasps it in her 

 cheliceres and carries it oft'. The cocoon, of a slate color, is 

 orbicular, and contains about fifteen eggs. This is probably 

 [388] related to Aranea saceata of Europe. I have found in 

 Alabama a spider, which may not differ specifically from this, 

 which was larger and of a mouse color, with very indistinct 

 markings, except its legs, which agreed with the drawing ac- 

 companying this. . Its cocoon, which it carried in the usual 

 way, was also of a bluish pale slate color, but it was lenticular, 

 being composed of two concave plates of strong texture, united 

 loosely at the edge ; and it contained about sixty yellow eggs — 

 notwithstanding the apparent difference, I refer it to this spe- 

 cies. It is probable, however, that future naturalists will de- 

 fine two or more species, which I may have confounded or 

 referred to this description. 

 Habitat. The United States. 



6. Lycosa erratica. 

 PI. 3, fig. 8. 



Description. Brown or pieeous ; cephalothorax with one 

 longitudinal blackish line each side ; abdomen with a forked 

 longitudinal fascia and several spots black, a large black spot 

 underneath, sometimes a white spot surrounded with black; 

 male the same. 



Observations. This species, which becomes very large, 1 

 formerly supposed to be a variety of L. lenta ; but it was al- 

 ways found wandering and never in holes; I therefore consider 

 it as perfectly distinct, having been often seen, generally rim- 

 ing in the "Tass. 



Habitat. Massachusetts, Alabama. 

 [Marietta, O. .. Wm. Bolden. j. u. e.] 



