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line along the dorsal groove. On each side of the thorax, near the 

 edge, is a light line about as wide as the median one. The legs ai-e 

 yellowish brown, without rings, and darker or lighter according to 

 the age of the spider. On the front of tlie abdomen is a middle 

 stripe, darkest at the edges, which tapers to a point about the middle 

 of the back. On each side of this are light stripes, which unite and 

 become a narrow middle stripe on the hinder part of the abdomen. 

 At the sides of the middle stripe are slightly darker and lighter ob- 

 lique lines. The under side of the abdomen has irregular dark spots 

 on a light ground, sometimes arranged in oblique lines at the sides 

 and two or three longitudinal lines in the middle. The male isab(»ut 

 half as large as the lemale and similarly marked. The tarsus of the 

 male palpus is long, about twice the length of the palpal organ and 

 has several straight spines at the end. The palpal organ has a large 

 barbed process across the base below the tube ; above tlie tube is a 

 thin sharp process about the same length and at its base a shorter 

 one. The epigynum is about as wide as long and shaped like the 

 letter T. 



This is one of the most common species. It is oftenest found under 

 stones where the female makes a hollow in the ground lined thinly 

 with silk in which she stands with her cocoon of eggs early in the 

 Slimmer. 



Massachusetts ; Providence, R. I. ; New Haven and Noank, Conn. ; 

 Indianapolis, Indiana. 



Lycosa pratensis, new. 



Plate XLVI, figures 4, 4a, 4&. 



Length, 10'°'". Cephalothorax, S'"'" long, 3™"^ wide. 



The colors are dark and light yellowish brown, browner than L. 

 nidicola, which sj^ecies it much resembles. The middle of the cephalo- 

 thorax is light, broken by faint grayish stripes. Behind the middle 

 the light area narrows and extends back to the end of the thorax. 

 The abdomen is grayish, marked by two rows of light spots, indis- 

 tinctly connected in pairs by cross lines. When wet the markings 

 appear more complicated, as in the figure. On the front of the abdo- 

 men is the usual light stripe with dark edges over the dorsal vessel. 



The front row of eyes is hardly longer than the second row, which 

 distinguishes this species from polita. 



The epigynum is shaped like that of lineata^ but is shorter and 

 wider. The palpal organ has the processes which support the tube, 

 wider and more curved than in lineata. 



