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that their order is 1243. The first femur is heavy, the fourth 

 longer than the first, but considerably more slender. The third 

 femur is quite short. The legs of the third pair are bent across 

 the abdomen. All legs are thickly covered with short hair, but 

 there are only a few spines discernible. The spinnerets appear as 

 a dark disc considerably in front of the posterior end of the 

 abdomen and seem to be circumvallated as in the preceding 

 species. 



Epcira sp. 

 Scudder, Tertiary Insects p. 88. Plate 11, fig. i. 



An incompletely preserved specimen No. 9285 (now No. 113) 

 from Florissant in the Collection of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology of Harvard University. All that can be made out has 

 been described by Scudder. The generic affiliation is very 

 uncertain. 



Epeira sp. 

 Scudder, Tertiary Insects, 1890, p. 89. 



Scudder mentions this specimen. No. 63 from Green River, 

 Wyoming. I have not seen it, but the few words which Scudder 

 uses for its characterization are sufficient to show that the speci- 

 men is too poorly preserved to be of any value. 



FAMILY LYCOSID^. 



Characters of the Family : — Eight eyes in three rows, all 

 diurnal. First row composed of four small eyes. Eyes of the 

 second row largest, directed forward, those of the third row 

 directed upward. Posterior piece of the lorum of the petiolus 

 emarginate in front. Trochanters notched. Claws 3. 



Genus Lycosa Latreille. 



At present the genus Lycosa is used by one group of Arach- 

 nologists with Simon as their spokesman for species referred by 

 the other group to the genus Tar en tula which two genera are 

 therefore synonymous. On the other hand the second group uses 

 the name Lycosa for spiders which Simon places under the genus 

 Pardosa C. Koch. I am accustomed to follow Simon's definition. 



