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THE COMMON SPIDERS 



Pardosa con- 

 small spiders, all 

 slender. The 



Figs. 186, 187, 188. Pardosa 

 lapidicina. — 186, female en- 

 larged four times. 187, 

 side of cephalothorax. 

 188, epigynum. 



legs, the fourth 

 The color is 

 with black 

 ings (fig.. 186). 

 being wet, the 



E GENUS PARDOSA 



sists of comparatively 

 of them long legged and 

 head is high in front, and 

 the four upper eyes large 

 and spread over the whole front 

 of the head (fig. 200). The 

 front row of eyes is plainly 

 shorter than the second 

 row. The colors are gener- 

 ally dark, often 

 black, and with 

 white markings. 

 The spines of the 

 legs are long, even 

 on the front pairs, 

 and the whole body 

 i is often covered 

 with long hairs. To 

 show the compara- 

 tive size of the dif- 

 ferent species of this genus, all 

 the figures are made on the 

 same scale, four times the 

 real size. 

 Pardosa lapidicina. — Four- fifths 

 of an inch long and with long 

 pair three-quarters of an inch long, 

 black, the whole body being covered 

 hairs that obscure the few light mark- 

 When looked at closely, especially after 

 legs appear a little lighter colored toward 



