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spots on the cephalothorax form a band except for narrow dark 

 cross-lines; the legs are more conspicuously annulate, the light rings 

 contrasting more strongly with the dark. As other species having 

 the same range as lapidicina undergo similar changes in brightness 

 of color, and especially since the light form of lapidicina and all 

 intermediate forms are not rare in the North, the Western specimens of 

 this Pardosa ought not to be granted rank as separate species or 

 variety. Type specimens of venusta Bks. that I have seen are not 

 fully adult, and agree perfectly with immature specimens of lapidicina. 



Pardosa xerampelina (Keyserling), 1876. 



(Sub Lijcosa, Verb. z. b. Ges. Wien, 26, p. 622, PI. 7, fig. S.) 



Female. — Sides of cephalothorax and eye region black or deep brown; 

 clypeus light brown; no distinct lateral light stripes, but sometimes a 

 few obscure light spots above margin on each side posteriorly ; a median 

 reddish brown band which is widest about the dorsal groove, behind 

 which it is strongly and more or less abruptly narrowed, the light 

 median band mostly dull and inconspicuous ; in life the cephalothorax 

 is clothed along sides and on head and over median band behind by 

 whitish pubescence, the other parts clothed with brown and black hair. 

 Chelicerce reddish brown, each with a short longitudinal yellowish 

 stripe above or at middle. Labium and endites brown, paler at tip. 

 Sternum dark reddish brown to blackish brown, an obscure median 

 pale line anteriorly; clothed with light gray pubescence. Coxce of 

 legs beneath brown. Legs yellow to brown; all joints excepting the 

 tarsi ringed with black; the femora dorsally are distinctly darker 

 than the other joints; clothed with brown and light gray pubescence, 

 the gray over the light parts, the brown over the darker. Abdomen 

 above black or nearly so ; a lanceolate basal mark of brown ; basal stripe 

 joined at two points on each side near its apex by the ends of a V-shaped 

 mark the apex of which is directed laterally ; posteriorly a series of light 

 transverse more or less chevron-shaped markings; all markings of 

 dorsum more or less faint; sides of abdomen and part of the venter 

 about the spinnerets black, the venter elsewhere being light brown; 

 abdomen clothed above with brown pubescence with a row of small 

 spots of whitish hair along each side; venter of abdomen clothed with 

 light gray pubescence. Spinnerets brown. Epigynum brown, with the 

 depression showing as a distinctly darker V-shaped figure with apex 

 caudal. 



Face high, the chelicerte but little longer than its height; sides of face 

 substraight, steep but a little slanting outward from above dowm^ ard. 



