292 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP [May, 



(7)Alloco8a exalbida L. Becker, 1881. 

 {Loc. sup. cit., figs. 3, 3a, Zb.) 



Only figures were published. A pale species about 11 mm, long, 

 with very long legs. The figure of the eyes would seem certainly to 

 prove this species not to be a Lycosa. The epigynum is not that either 

 of Lycosa or a Pardosa, being like that of some Piratas and much like 

 that of Allocosa {funerea). 



The eyes also resemble those of this latter genus, but this form is 

 placed here with much doubt. 



Locality. — New Orleans, 



The genus SOSIPPTJS E. Simon, 1888. 

 ^;i (Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., p. 205.) 



Entire body densely clothed with rather long pubescence. Anterior 

 tibicB armed beneath with three pairs of spines which are basal, median 

 or submedian, and apical in position respectively; these spines long 

 and apically slender and aculeate, much longer than the diameter 

 of the joint (PI. XI, fig. 4). Anterior eyes well separated, equi- 

 distant or very nearly so; the lateral ones on protruding tubercles, 

 as large as or (as in ours) larger than the median; the anterior row 

 longer than the second (PI. XI, fig. 2); clypeus as wide as the 

 diameter of an anterior lateral eye; eyes of second row considerably 

 less than their diameter apart ; quadrangle of posterior eyes trapezif orm, 

 distinctly broader behind than in front. Chelicerce armed below with 

 four stout conical teeth. Labium longer than wide, the basal excava- 

 tion (in ours) one-third the total length. Posterior spinnerets dis- 

 tinctly and considerably longer than the anterior, the second joint 

 of the former being long and conical (PI. XI, fig. 5). Epigynum 

 with a guide which in the known species is subclavately enlarged dis- 

 tally (PL XXIII, fig. 2). Alveolar area of male palpus compara- 

 tively small; a simple (in ours) process from basal lobe present in an 

 exterior position, extending distally and free except at base; no pit or 

 fold at base of process (PI. XXIII, fig. 1), 



Svn.— 1898. Sosippus Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign., 2, p. 326. 



1902. Sosippus Cambridge, Boil. Cent. .\mer., pp. 315-332. 



1903. Comstock, Classif. of N. A. Spiders. 



Cephalothorax long and rather low, the pars cephalica not elevated. 

 Face rounded forward to the front eye row, the clypeus from above 

 below more or less retro-oblique, its sides convex and slanting out ard 

 (PI, XI, fig. 4). Quadrangle of posterior eyes one-fifth as long as 



