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Type locality — Alabama. 



Known localities. — Maryland!, Illinois!, Massachusetts, Connecti- 

 cut, Rhode Island!, New York!, District of Columbia!, Pennsylvania, 

 Virginia, North Carolina!, Georgia!, Alabama!, Louisiana!, Mississippi!, 

 Kansas!, Indiana!. 



One of the commonest and most widely distributed of North Ameri- 

 can Pardosas. Specimens from the South are lighter than those from 

 the North, the sternum being frequently yellow or white without 

 marks, and at other times being covered in varying degrees with black 

 dots, the dots in some covering entire sternum, except for the anterior 

 median light stripe, and in others found only in a single row along each 

 margin. In the same locality all gradations may be found between 

 dark, typically colored individuals and the pale forms. 

 Pardosa pauxilla Mtg. 



Female. — Sides of cephalothorax blackish brown or deep chocolate 

 color; a rather wide yellow or pale brown band along each lateral 

 margin extending forward to the clypeus which is of the same light 

 color; eye region black; back of eyes a median dagger-shaped light 

 brown stripe of usual character. Chelicene yellow. Labium, endites 

 and coxce of legs beneath yellow or yellowish brown. Sternum yellow- 

 ish brown, blackish toward margins and with scattered black spots 

 over the middle portion. Legs also yellow or yellowish brown with 

 numerous dark annuli which are deep and distinct on the femora and 

 tibiae, but are less strong or sometimes indistinct on the metatarsi; 

 of these annuli there are four on each femur and tibia and three on 

 each metatarsis; each patella has a median annulus with indications 

 in some of darkened ends. Abdomen with dorsum black to deep 

 brown minutely dotted with yellow; at base a yellow lanceolate stripe 

 with an angular spot each side of apex as usual, followed behind by 

 a series of wide chevron-marks of the ordinary character; because of 

 the extent of the yellow markings in some the dorsum appears to be 

 occupied over its middle region from base to spinnerets by a yellowish 

 band which narrows caudally and encloses rather indistinct dark 

 markings; sides of abdomen dark like the lateral portions of dorsum, 

 but the yellow dots larger, becoming more and more extended and 

 confluent ventrally, finally passing into the inmiaculate yellow or 

 yellowish white venter. Spinnerets pale brown. Epigynum reddish 

 brown. 



Anterior row of eyes of the usual relative length and curvature; 

 anterior median eyes fully their diameter apart, much closer to the 

 smaller lateral eyes, their diameter or a little more from the eyes of 



