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Type locality. — Illinois. 



Known localities. — New Hampshire!, Massachusetts, Illinois, Color- 

 ado!, Utah!, New York?, Pennsylvania, Canada. 



Essentially a Northern and mountain species. It is not unconnnon 

 in Canada and in the ^^Tiite Mountains of New England, but does not 

 occur commonly more southward. It also ranges south from Canada 

 along the Rocky Mountains, and is common in Colorado and Utah. 



Pardosa groenlandica(Thorell), 1872. 



(Sub Lycosa, Ofvers. af. Vet. Akad. Forh., 29.) 

 Fetnalc. — Cephalothorax black or nearly so; a lighter, brown median 

 band beginning only a little in front of dorsal furrow, passing over the 

 latter and then narrowing to a Hne on the posterior declivity ; from the 

 front of the median band a horn-shaped yellow mark extends out- 

 ward and forward on each side toward the corresponding eye of the 

 third row, which, however, it does not reach; more rarely these horn- 

 like marks are obscure or quite absent; a row of three or less commonly 

 four curved light marks above the margin of each side; hair of 

 cephalothorax long, brown and light gray or whitish intermixed, the 

 whitish hair more or less unmixed with brown on the clypeus, the light 

 supramarginal marks and on the median light area behind. Chelicerm 

 reddish-yellow or brown above and black distally, the lighter color 

 often reduced to a few spots; clothed with short light gray hair and 

 longer brown bristles. Labium and endites brown, lighter at tips. 

 Sternum black, clothed with gray hair. Coxa; of legs beneath brown. 

 Legs brown, mostly of a reddish hue; all joints, excepting tarsi, with 

 distinct black annulations; clothed with brown and whitish hair, 

 chiefly over the dark and light parts respectively. Palpi brown; 

 femora ringed with black; patella unmarked; tibise black at proximal 

 end and the tarsi black at tips. Abdomen above black or blackish 

 brown, the tegument either entirely without light markings or with a 

 lanceolate basal mark of reddish-brown color ; each side of this mark at 

 its base may be a spot of the same color, as also an obscure smaller spot 

 each side of apex behind; more rarely there may be distinguishable 

 posteriorly a lumiber of obscure light spots more or less confluent in 

 pairs; abdomen covered above with brown hair, with bunches of 

 white hair forming a row of white spots along each side; sides of 

 abdomen above like the dorsum, below light brown with numerous 

 darker, reddish-brown or rust-colored spots usually connected into a 

 continuous network; sides covered with brown and white hair inter- 

 mixed in streaks and spots and quite concealing the tegument and its 



