I'M •/. If. Kuicrton — N^eio KiH/Ianfl Li/<oxi,<l<i'. 



li<j;litL!r tluiii llu! others. Tho abdomen is gray, iiiaiketl l»y briglit white 

 spots. In tlie middle oi" tlie liinder half is a row of short transverse 

 white lines, and at the sides of these two rows of white dots. At the 

 sides of the front of the abdomen are several oblique white lines. 

 'IMie upper spinnerets are twice as long as the lower. The uj>per eyes 

 are large and ])r()ininent and surrounded by black. 



l^he male palpi are light colored and not much thickened. The 

 [)alpal oi"gan has small appendages which are all near the outer end 

 of the tarsus. The middle process is a large hook with a smaller and 

 shorter one tiu'ned in the opposite direction at its base. 



Salem and Roxbury, Mass. ; Meriden, Conn. 



Pardosa C. Koch, .Simou. 



Lycosa Thorell = Lycosa Keyserliug, Anioricaaische Citigradie, zoul.-botun. Ges.. 

 Wieu, 1S7G. 



Plate XLIX, figures 1, ke, \h, Ic, \d. 



Head high and the second eyes large and as far apart as their diam- 

 eter, ov farther. The front row of eyes is straight or a little curved 

 n|»ward and siiurter than the second row. The dorsal eyes are a little 

 farther apart and nearly as far from the second eyes as IVom each 

 other. The mandibles are small aiul weak compared with those of 

 Lycosa. The legs are long and slender, less hairy than in Lycosa, 

 l)ut with very long spines, which lie Hat against the skin when at 

 rest and are turned out when the spider is active. The s|)innerets 

 are short and the posterior ))air are a little the longest. The species 

 are all small and brightly marked aiul live among grass, especially 

 in open, wet ground, making no nests. 



Pardosa lapidicina, new. 



Plate XLVIII, fkjuues 5, Sa, bh, 5c. 



.S""" long. Cephalothorax, 3-5"""' long; 1st leg, 1 1""" ; 4th leg, 14""". 



The general color is l)lack or dark gray, covered with long hairs. 

 The markings show plainer when wet with alcohol. The cephalotho- 

 rax has an ii'i'egular light [>atch around the doi-sal groove and small 

 light spots around the edges. The legs are nuirked with light and 

 dark riiigs, the width of the light rings increasing and the dark de- 

 creasing toward the ti[)s. The back of the abdoiaeu is niarked with 

 irregular rows of light spots, somewhat as in L. cinerea. The 

 under side has some irregular light spots, sometimes a light spot 

 in the middle with a black ring around it. Others have the whole 

 abdomen black. 



