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ends and narrowly edged with blackish; to each side of the mid-line 

 is a row of about 6 small spots, the posterior ones connected l)y narrow 

 transverse lines of the same color. The sides are greenish-brown, 

 flecked ventrally with yellow. Venter yellow with a median and a pair 

 of closely approximated lateral blackish, longitudinal bands \vhich 

 converge as they pass caudad, but are separated from the spinnerets 

 by an area of the same color as the sides; the lateral dark bands 

 diverge aroimd the epigynum and at some distance from it, but imite 

 anteriorly close to the peduncle. Chclicera dark reddish-lilack with 

 few hairs, labium the same color with yellow tip, maxilUe brownish. 

 Legs with the femora black (except for a yellow spot on the distal 

 anterior surface of the first pair) ; coxse and trochanters blackish above 

 but lighter below; the other joints light yellow, patellae and tibia? of 

 the first three pairs blackish below, fourth pair with the patella blackish 

 below and the tibia with a blackish ring at each end and extending to 

 the dorsal surface. Palpi with femora black, other joints yellow with 

 some blackish ventrally. 



Color of Male (in alcohol).— C'f7)^«7o//iora.T hairless, shining dark 

 brown, a black stripe between the second and third eyes of each side. 

 Sternum shining brown. Abdomen above with the median band bor- 

 dered with small black dots, and enclosed in a broader bright yellow 

 area which in its posterior two-thirds contains on each side a row of 

 about 7 small black spots, each row more lateral than the median band, 

 and the two rows meeting at the spinnerets. The sides are blackish, 

 flecked with yellow. The venter is like that of the female, but the 

 median dark band is lacking. Legs with femora darkest, these being 

 greenish-brown, as are the trochanters; coxse yellow proximally; the 

 other joints pale yellow without dark markings. PaJpi greenish, the 

 ventral surface of the patella- and the distal end of the tarsus yellow. 



Comparisons. — This species is to be distinguished from L. rugosa 

 (Keys.), another small species with hairless cephalothorax. in the 

 structure of the palpal organ ; in the wide separation of the eyes of the 

 second row; in the chelicera being considerably longer than the first 

 patellae and arched in front; and in the different color of the abdominal 

 venter. Hentz's L. funerea may be one of these species, but his de- 

 scription and figure gives so insufficient a diagnosis that it is doubtful 

 whether funerea can ever be recognized with certainty. 

 Lycosa charonoides Montg. 



Lycosa charonoides Montgomer}% 1902, 1903. 



(Specimens from Pennsylvania.) 



Eijcs. — First row as broad as the second (c?) or shorter ( 9 ), straight. 



