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THE COMMON SPIDERS 



Fig. 176. Lycosa caroli- 

 nensis. — Under side of 

 female to show the black 

 markings. 



i gray marks, so that, when it lies flat on the sand, it 

 can hardly be distinguished from it. The body is half 

 an inch long, and the fourth legs nearly 

 an inch. The under side is white or gray, 

 and the whole body covered with white 

 and gray hairs. The legs are marked with 

 indistinct dark rings, two or three to each 

 joint. On the cephalothorax the spots 

 radiate irregularly from the dorsal groove ; 

 the space between the eyes is dark, and 

 the mandibles are dark brown. The mark- 

 ings of the abdomen are broken 1 

 up into small spots, so that there 

 is little of the usual figures. The 

 male palpi are 

 long and slender 

 and the ends very small. 



Lycosa kochii. — This is a 

 common species in the woods, 

 and is colored brown and gray, 

 like dead leaves (fig. 179). It 

 is half an inch long when full 

 grown, and the fourth legs three- 

 quarters of an inch. The upper eyes 

 are larger than mpratensis and nidicola, and cover 

 half the width of the head, as in communis. The 

 cephalothorax is light gray in the middle and dark 

 at the sides and around the front of the head. 

 The legs are gray, lighter toward the body and 

 darker toward the ends, marked with indistinct 

 rings, two or three to each joint. The abdomen FlGS - I7 . 7 > J 78. L y- 



° J cosacinerea. — 177, 



is gray, with broken darker gray markings form- female enlarged 



,. . « r 1 • 1 four times. 178, 



ing indistinctly a row or transverse marks in the maxilla;. 



