134 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Jan., 



SPARASSID^. 

 Selenops aissa Walckenaer. 



Recorded by Dr. Marx from southern Florida. 



Heteropoda venatoria Linn^. 



Taken at Runnymede; Jacksonville; Altoona, June, and Miami. 



LYCOSID^. 



Lycosa carolinensis Walckenaer. 

 L. carolinensis Hentz. 



One specimen from Punta Gorda, Febr. 



Lycosa helluo Walckenaer. 



L. babingtoni Blackwall. 



A few from Punta Gorda, April; they do not differ from northern 

 specimens. 

 Lycosa riparia Hentz. 



Common from Pimta Gorda, April; Palm Beach; and Enterprise, 

 April (Laurent). 

 Lycosa lenta Hentz. 



Several specimens from Altoona, July; and Runnymede. Nov.; L. 

 ruricola Hentz is, I think, the male of L. lenta. 

 Lycosa floridana Banks. 



A few from Punta Gorda, Febr., the types. 

 Lycosa erratica Hentz. 



Taken at Enterprise, April (Laurent). 



Lycosa posticata n. sp. 



Cephalothorax red-brown; a narrow median pale stripe from eyes 

 to tip, and a pale stripe on each side ; a pale spot each side of clypeus ; 

 mandibles dark red-brown ; leg IV wholly pale yellow ; other legs heav- 

 ily mottled with brown; the femora beneath almost wholly dark, above 

 with two pale bands; patella pale, -v^dth a middle dark band; tibia 

 dark, with pale band at base and one on middle ; metatarsi dark, tarsi 

 pale. Stenurm rather reddish, uniform, Coxse and maxillae yellowish. 

 Abdomen black, with a pale stripe each side on base reaching halfway 

 back, and thence broken into spots. Venter gray. 



Length 10 mm. 



Two specimens from Miami (Laurent). Readily distinguished from 

 all other Lycosas known to me by the pale hind legs, in contrast with 

 the darker other pairs. 

 Lycosa punctulata Hentz. 



Several from Punta Gorda, April. 



