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from each other; third row twice the diameter of one of its eyes, wider 

 than second row; quadrangle of posterior eyes much wider than long; 

 cephalothorax six and a half times the length of the quadrangle of 

 posterior eyes. 



Teeth of margins of furrow of chelicerce as usual. 



Legs short and moderately stout, the fourth pair less than three times 

 the length of cephalothorax; tibia + patella of fourth legs shorter than 

 cephalothorax, metatarsus of fourth legs clearly shorter than tibia + 

 patella; tarsi I and II and distal part of metatai-si I and II scopulate, 

 scopulffi not dense. Tarsi III and IV with sparse scopular hairs laterally 

 elsewhere clothed with long bristles. 



Tibia) and metatarsi I and II armed beneath as usual, the spines 

 rather small and slender. Patella I and II each armed in front with a 

 single spine. 



Epigynum as figured (PI. XIX, fig. 9). 



Total length, 9.6 mm. Length of cephalothorax, 4.5 mm.; width, 

 3.3 mm. 



Length of leg I, 9.7 mm. ; tib. + pat., 3.6 mm. : met., 1.9 mm. 



Length of leg II, 9.4 mm. 



Length of leg III, 8.8 mm. 



Length of leg IV, 12.1 nun.; tib. + pat., 4 mm.; met., 3.2 mm. 



^^™~;i^^^- ^y^o^f^ PoUta Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., 6, p. 484 

 PI. 46, figs. 2, 2o, 26, 2c. > > i' , 



1S90. Lycosa polita, Marx, Proc. U. S. N. M., 12, p. 563. 



. Trochosa rubicundn, Marx, ibid., p. 564. 



1892. Lycosa polita, Banks, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 44 p 66 



. Lycosa polita, Marx, Proc. Ent. Soc. W., 2, p. 160.' ' 



. Lycosa polita, Fox, Proc. Ent. Soc. W., 2, p. 267. 



189.3. Lycosa rubicunda Keyserling, Banks, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. I p 125 



1894. Lycosa polita Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., 9, p. 422. ' ' 



1902. Lycosa polita Emerton, Common Spiders of U. S., p. 70, fig. 171. 



1904. Trochosa rubicunda, Montgomery, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 

 307, PI. XIX, fig. 30. 



Type locality.— Eastern Massachusetts; Albany, New York; New 

 Haven, Connecticut. 



Known localities.— Massachusetts, Connecticut!, Rhode Island!, New 

 York !, Indiana, District of Columbia. 



" Under stones in summer and under leaves in winter. Eggs in June 

 and July." 



Lycosa avara (Keyserling), 1876. 



(Sub Trochosa, Verb. z. b. Ges. Wien, 26, p. 661, Pi. VIII, figs. 38, 39.) 

 Female.— Cephalothorax with a light median band widest between 

 third eyes and dorsal groove where it is as wide as third e3'e row; 



