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35. Median pale band of cephalothorax strongly widening anteriorly, 



passing each side of the eyes and reaching to the clypeus, the 



full width of which it embraces, albohastata Em, 



Median pale band of cephalothorax not thus in front wider than 

 and enclosing eye area, 36. 



36, Embolus curving out ventralwards and forward, resting only its 



apical part obliquely across the auricle (PI. XXI, fig, 4), 



gulosa W, 

 Not so, . , , 37. 



37. Median pale stripe strongly bulging between third eye row and 



anterior end of dorsal groove, being much wider than third eye 

 row; at front of furrow abruptly narrowed to the widtli of 

 third eye row, its sides then subparallel to posterior declivity, 



pictilis Em. 

 Median pale band of cephalothorax not so formed, , , , 38, 



38, Dorsum of abdomen with a median light band extending to spin- 



nerets behind, where it ends in a point, enclosing at base a dark 



lanceolate mark, or with the latter sometimes absent, crratica H. 



No such distinctly limited light band on dorsum of abdomen, 39. 



39, Venter mostly black, modesta (K,). 



Venter brown to yellowish, avara (K.), 



40. Venter with a wide irregularly edged black l^and extending from 



epigynum to spinnerets and sometimes embracing entire width 



of abdomen, frondicola Em, 



Venter with no such broad black band, , , , . prate^isis Em. 



Lycosa helluo Walckenaer, 1837. 

 (Insect, Apt., I, p. 337.) 

 Female. — Cephalothorax deep brown, a narrow light colored median 

 pale stripe which anteriorly becomes line-like and extends forward 

 between the eyes, this median stripe in life covered with light brown 

 pubescence which continues as a median line between the eyes and to 

 the front margin of the clypeus; in most a short curved light hne 

 behind each eye of third row and close to the median line; a wider 

 similarly colored and clothed light supramarginal stripe on each side, 

 this stripe usually not distinguishable in front of third eye row; eyes 

 enclosed in black; dark parts of cephalothorax clothed with brown and 

 black hair intermixed, the black most abundant over, and giving its 

 deeper color to, the upper parts of the sides along the bordere of the 

 median pale stripe and the area about the ej^es. Chelicerw black or 

 brownish black, the lateral condyles red at base and black below; 

 clothed with a short yellowish pubescence with some longer, gray- 

 black bristles intermixed, the latter being more numerous distally and 

 forming the dense fringe along the superior margin of the furrow. 

 Labium and endites black, brown at distal ends. Sternum and coxce 



