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Alexander PetruiikevitcJi, 



The only spicier which I refer lo the genus Lycosa has the external 

 appearance of recent representatives of the genus. This is, how- 

 ever, as far as one can go in placing^ the spider and in this paper 

 I use therefore the ^tnns Lycosa in an indeterminate sense. 



Lycosa florissanti n. sp. {Text figure jd). 



One female, Nos. 10234 and 10240 in the Collection of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



Figure 36. — Lycosa fiorissanli n. sp. Specimen No. 10234. x 3.33. 



Except for the ends of the first and second pair of leg;s the spe- 

 cimen is complete and is well preserved. Total length including 

 chelicerse — 8.0 mm. The carapace is three mm. long, oval in 

 shape, slightly narrowed in front. The eyes are not discernible. 

 The abdomen is elliptic, evenly rounded in front and in the rear, 

 4 mm., long, 3 mm. wide. The chelicerse are powerful. On the 

 reverse one can clearly see their entire outline, the sternum and the 

 coxije, the posterior pair of which is contiguous. The spinnerets 

 are visible but the details cannot be made out. The epigynum 

 can also be seen and reminds one of the similar organ in recent 



