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Pardosa vancouveri, n. sp. 



7 mm. long. Gray with the colour much broken into spots 

 of irregular shape. The cephalothorax has three light stripes, the 

 middle one two-thirds as long as the cephalothorax, widened at the 

 front end and divided in tliree. (Fig. 20, 2.) The side stripes extend 

 the whole length of the cephalothorax and are of irregular width. 

 The legs are darkest at the base, and have broken and irregular 

 spots on all the joints. The abdomen has tjie usual long middle 

 spot at the front end, behind which are small, irregular, light spots 

 in pairs. On the under side the colours are somewhat lighter on 

 the cox» and femora, and the abdomen has three indefinite dark 

 stripes on a light ground. The epigynum is long and partly 

 divided into two parts. The anterior end has a wide, distinct 

 pit, from which a soft and narrow ridge extends backward as far 

 as the transverse division. (Fig. 20, 1.) The posterior half has a 

 wide middle lobe in which is a ridge approaching the form of a T. 

 (Fig. 20, 1.) The male is yet unknown. 



Departure Bay and Vancouver, in gardens and fields. T. B. 

 Kurata. 



Pnecilochroa Columbiana, n. sp. 



Cephalothorax 2.5 mm. long. Abdomen variable in size ac- 

 cording to contents. Cephalothorax orange brown with black 

 hairs. Legs orange yellow except the femora, which are dark like 

 the cephalothorax, the first and second femora sometimes darker 

 than the others. The abdomen is black with a white, transverse 

 stripe at the front, two transverse spots in the middle, and some- 

 times a few white hairs in front of the spinnerets. On the under 



Fig. 21. — Pcecilochroa columbiana. 1. male palpus, under side; 2, epigynum. 



