THE LYCOSID^ 



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and the tarsi small for so large a spider. The second row of 

 eyes is a little wider than the front row. 



^ Lycosa ocreata. — The female may easily be mistaken for young 

 L. kocJiii (fig. 179) or communis (fig. 181), but the male is con- 

 spicuous on account of the dark 

 head and front legs and espe- 

 cially the thick covering of 

 black hairs on the tibiae of the 

 first pair. The cephalothorax 

 has a distinct light middle 

 stripe, narrower and straighter 

 in the male (figs. 184, 185). 

 The middle of the abdomen is 

 yellow, with the pointed stripe 

 only a little darker and marked 

 with black spots around the edges. At 

 the sides the abdomen is brown, broken 

 in spots, and in the middle of the hinder 

 half are three or four cross marks. The 

 legs are yellowish and ringed with gray 

 in the females. In the males the femora 

 and the sides of the thorax are much 

 darker brown, and the tibiae of the front 

 pair dark and thickly covered with hairs. 

 The male palpi have the patella and tibia 

 thickened and about as wide as long. 



The front legs are plainly thicker than the second in both 

 sexes. The second row of eyes is wider than the first. The 

 length of either sex is a little over quarter of an inch. The legs 

 are slender and thinly covered with long fine hairs. The longest 

 leg is about half an inch. 



Figs. 184, 1S5. Lycosa ocreata. 

 — 184, female enlarged eight 

 times. 185, cephalothorax 

 and front legs of male. 



