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figured by Hentz is strongly developed in some individuals, obscure or 

 absent in others. In size and general colorati(m this species is much 

 like ocreata, except as to the first legs of the males; and it has also 

 approximately the same geographical range. 



Schizocosa bilineata (Emerton), 1885. 



(Sub Pnrdosa, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., VI, p. ^96, PI. 40, figf?. 3 to 36.) 



Female. — Sides of cephalothornx dark reddish brown clothed with 

 deep brown pubescence. A wide median yellow stripe of the usual 

 form, darker, more reddish, in front of dorsal groove, extending be- 

 tween e3^es of third row as usual ; not geminated or only so for \-ery little 

 distance at front, usually a darker reddish line extending backward 

 from inner side of each eye of third row, the two uniting in front of 

 median groove ; the band clothed in gray and light brown pubescence 

 which is darker anteriorly; a narrow supramarginal stripe each side 

 reaching to clypeus in front, the dark band below this stripe 

 often more or less broken into spots by light cross-lines; some 

 light radiating cross-lines from median stripe; eyes surrounded with 

 black, the black extending across clypeus below each anterior 

 lateral eye. Chelicerce brown, a gray-brown pubescence and longer 

 black bristles. Endites yellow or light brown. Labium darker, brown 

 to blackish. Sternum light brown or yellow, a row of dark spots 

 each side of the middle, the two converging and meeting posteriorly, 

 the margins also sometimes darker, clothed with grayish pubescence. 

 Coxce of legs yellow. Legs yellow, somewhat darkened distally, 

 entirely without dark annuli or other markings. Abdomen above 

 light brown, enclosing at base a dark lanceolate outline ending at 

 middle, and with behind on each side a row of several black spots, 

 which are connected in pairs by narrow and often indistinct dark 

 transverse lines; the dorsum densely clothed with light brown or gray- 

 brown pubescence; a deep brown or black spot over each anterior 

 lateral angle, the sides elsewhere also dark from the many dark spots 

 which are often more or less arranged in rows, covered with brown 

 pubescence, intermixed with gray in spots and streaks ; venter yellow, 

 covered with gray pubescence, with normally four dark longitudinal 

 lines, all converging from furrow of lung slits toward the spinnerets. 

 Spinnerets yellowish or pale bro^vn. Epigyniim pale brown witli darker 

 margins. 



Face moderately high, a little more than two-thirds as high as the 

 length of the chelicerffi; sides scarcely convex, very steep, much as in 

 Pardosa. 



