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Length of leg I, 6 mm. ; tib. + pat., 2 mm. ; met., 1.2 mm. 



Length of leg II, 5.7 mm. 



Length of leg III, 5.3 mm. 



Length of leg IV, 8.25 mm. ; tib. + pat., 2.5 mm. ; met., 2.4 mm. 



Syn. — 1875. Lycosa funerea Hentz, J. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 4, p. 393. 



1890. Lycosa funerea, Marx, Proc. U. S. N. M., 12. 



1897. Lycosa funerea, Banks, Proc. Ent. Soc. W., 4. 



1902. Lycosa sublata Montgomerj', Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 539. 



1904. Trochosa sublata, Montgomery, ibid., p. 308. 



Type locality. — Alabama. 



Known localities. — Alabama, Georgia!, Louisiana!. 

 "This species abounds on the ground. It has the habits of a Her- 

 pyllus, and runs with great rapidity " (Hentz), 



AUocosa degesta Chamberlin, 1904. 

 (Can. Entomologist, p. 287.) 



Female. — Cephalothorax shining black of reddish luster. ChelicercB 

 the same. Labium and endites brown. Legs nearly as in funerea, but 

 light marks on femora more obscure and less contrast on other joints 

 between the light and dark rings. Sternum reddish brown, dark 

 about margins, lighter, more yellowish, over middle area. Abdomen 

 above nearly as in funerea; venter yellow with a few faint dark dots at 

 sides. Spinnerets yellow. Epigynum brown, weakly reddish at 

 borders. 



Chelicerce nearly twice as long as the face is high. Anterior row of 

 eyes a little longer than the second, nearly straight, anterior median 

 eyes much larger than the lateral (at least 3 : 2), at most one-fifth their 

 diameter apart, still closer to the lateral eyes, not fully one-third their 

 diameter from eyes of second row; anterior lateral eyes not fully their 

 diameter from front margin of clypeus, some closer to eyes of second 

 row; anterior median eyes three-fourths as large as those of second 

 TOW (PI. X, fig. 2); eyes of second row about their radius apart; 

 quadrangle of posterior eyes as wide in front as long, only one-sixth as 

 long as cephalothorax. Spines of anterior tibiae greatly reduced, 

 minute, none at all on either anterior or posterior side of joint (PI. 

 X, fig. 1). 



Epigynum nearly the same as that of funerea (PL XXIII, fig. 5). 



Total length, 6.6 mm. Length of cephalothorax, 3.2 mm.; width, 

 2.25 mm. 



Length of leg I, 7.2 mm. ; tib. + pat., 2.5 mm. ; met., 1.6 mm. 



Length of leg II, 6.3 mm. 



