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Type locality. — Mary'land (Baltimore). 



Known localities. — Maryland, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia!. 



AUooosa funerea (Hentz), 1842. 



(Sub Lycosa, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 4, p. 393.) 

 Female. — Cephalothorax shining reddish black becoming a little paler 

 above, the marginal lines deep black; clypeus pale. Cheliceros deep 

 reddish brown. Labium and enclites brown. Sternum dark brown, 

 blackish at borders. Coxce of legs yellowish brown. Legs with ground 

 color brown of reddish tinge; femora of first pair of legs black, the 

 succeeding femora similar but pale beneath and with the black divided 

 above the proximal end by a brownish cross-band, this annulus becom- 

 ing more distinction the posterior legs, and the extreme distal end of 

 all femora pale; all tibiae with a subbasal and a subapical ring of black; 

 metatarsi less distinctly annulate, there being a median annulus, often 

 more or less diffused, and on posterior pairs also a siibbasal and a sub- 

 apical band. Abdomen appearing black above and at sides, minutely 

 dotted with A^ellow; the dorsum in front paler, reddish yellow, the paler 

 area enclosing a lanceolate black-margined outline, and followed 

 behind by a row of light spots with black dots at center on each side, 

 these being connected in pairs by black angular cross-lines the angles of 

 which are directed backward ; opposed to the black cross-lines is a 

 series of light chevron-lines wdth angles forward ; venter pale brown, 

 immaculate or sometimes with a few short transverse marks along each 

 side. 



Form of cephalothorax and face much as in rugosa. 

 Anterior row of eyes a little shorter than the second, gently procurved ; 

 anterior median eyes their radius or a little more apart, closer to the 

 lateral eyes which are but slightly smaller, less than their radius from 

 eyes of second row; anterior lateral eyes less than their diameter from 

 eyes of second row; eyes of second row their radius apart, rather less 

 than more; quadrangle of posterior eyes as wide in front as long, the 

 cephalothorax 5.5 times longer; eyes of third row unusually small. 

 Labium longer than wide (5.3 : 4.8) ; basal excavation one-fourth total 

 length; sides slightly convex, strongh'' converging distally ; front margin 

 convexly rounded, more rarely straight. 

 For spines of anterior tibiae see PI. X, fig. 3. 



The epigynum nearly identical in form with that of A. degesta (PL 

 XXIII, fig. 5). 



Total length, 5.2 mm. Length of cephalothorax, 2.7 nmi.; width, 

 2 mm. 



