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LYCOSA EPISIMA, new species. 



Plate 6, fig. 46. 



Female. — Carapace, in alcoholic specimen, dark chocolate-colored 

 or blackish on the sides with a median longitudinal band of reddish 

 yellow nearly as wide as eye area. Sternum yellow at middle, dusky 

 along each side. Legs dusky brown. Abdomen characteristically 

 marked with a median yellow band over its entire length, this band 

 enclosing a faint spear-mark at base. Sides of dorsum and upper 

 parts of sides of abdomen dark, blackish, the dark breaking up into 

 spots on lower part of sides. Venter pale, with dark spots forming a 

 longitudinal line on each side. 



Anterior row of eyes shorter than the second, decidedly procurved ; 

 median eyes larger than the laterals, the latter once and a half or 

 twice their diameter from the lower margin of clypeus ; median eyes 

 nearer to each other than to the laterals. 



Lower margin of furrow of chelicera with three teeth, of which the 

 proximal one is smallest. 



First two pairs of ventral spines of tibiae I and II long and over- 

 lapping. Tibiae III and IV with the usual median dorsal spines. 



Epigynum as shown in Plate 6, figure 46. 



Length, 8.2 mm. ; cephalothorax, 3.4 mm. ; tibia and patella I, 3.25 

 mm. ; tibia and patella IV, 3.75 mm. 



Locality. — Louisiana : Mandeville. One female taken by H. E. 

 Hubert May 1, 1920. 



Type.—C^i. No. 1017, M. C. Z. 



LYCOSA SUPKENANS. new species. 



Plate 7, fig. 47, 



Female. — Carapace with a median longitudinal light stripe that 

 extends forward between the eyes of the third row, but does not quite 

 reach those of the second row, which are upon a black ground; this 

 stripe bisected anteriorly by a median longitudinal black line. A 

 narrow light stripe on each side twice or more its width above the 

 margin. Chelicerae dark, almost mahogany. Sternum dusky, with a 

 median longitudinal pale, and also paler on each side. Legs brown 

 or dusky brown, with some lighter hairs but no distinct annuli. Ab- 

 domen dark above, with a median longitudinal light stripe over the 

 entire length, this stripe crossed in its caudal portion with several 

 dark chevron lines and embracing in its anterior portion a hastate 

 outline. Sides of abdomen and lateral portion of venter also dark; 

 venter with a narrow median longitudinal dark band, bordered on 

 each side with a light stripe. 



Upper and lower margins of chelicerae each armed with three 

 teeth. 



