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Micrathena reduviana Walck. 



Plectana reduviana Walck. Ins. Apt., II, 1837-'47, p. 201. 



Only three specimens taken during the season — two at Manhattan, August 

 17, and one at St. George, October 6. 

 Micrathena sagittata Walck. 



Plectana sagittata Walck. Ins. Apt., II, 1837-'47, p. 174. 

 One specimen, a male, taken at Lawrence in June. 

 Cycloea conica Pallas. 



Aranea conica Pallas. Spicilegia Zool., I, 1772, p. 48. 

 Three specimens from Manhattan, August 13. 

 Larinia directs Hentz. 



Epeira directa Hentz. Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., V, 1845, p. 478. 



Webs of this species are frequently encountered in the tall grass during 

 the late summer and early autumn. A few specimens from Stockton, 

 August 28; a large number from Manhattan, October 1. 



Family Lycosid.e. 

 Lycosa ocreata Hentz. 



Lycosa ocreata Hentz. Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IV, 1842, p. 391. 



A number of males collected along the small streams near Manhattan in 

 May. 

 Lycosa. polita Emerton. 



Lycosa polita Emerton. Trans. Conn. Acad., VI, 1885, p. 484. 

 Only one specimen, a female, from Delphos, May 26. 

 Lycosa nidicola Emerton. 



Lycosa nidicola Emerton. Trans. Conn. Acad., VI, 1885, p. 482. 



One of our common burrowing spiders. Both sexes taken in considerable 

 numbers at Manhattan in May and at Delphos in July and August. 

 Females observed with cocoons in May. 

 Lycosa kochii Keyser. 



Tarentula kochii Keyser. Ver. d. zool. botan. Ges. Wien., 1877, p. 636. 



Taken frequently in the region about Manhattan, especially in the fall and 

 spring. Females carrying cocoons as early as April 6. 

 Lycosa scutnl'ita Hentz. 



Lycosa scutulata Hentz. Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IV., 1842, p. ,390. 



Specimens from Hays, July 11; Wallace, July 18; and Manhattan, August 

 12. Matures in midsummer. Not common. 

 Lycosa carolinensis Walck. 



Lycosa carolinensis Walck. Ins. Apt., I, 1837-'47, p. 285. 



Taken in various parts of the state the year round. It has burrowing 

 habits very similar to those of L. nidicola and L. fatifera. Females 

 with cocoons in May. 

 Lycosa communis Emerton. 



Lycosa communis Emerton. Trans. Conn. Acad., VI, 1885, p. 489. 



Matures in June. Common in all parts of the state visited. The "horse- 

 shoe curve," a color pattern on the under side of the abdomen, is, in 

 nearly all cases, closed by a transverse bar of black behind the epigy- 

 num. 

 Lycosa cinerea Fabricius. 



Araneus cinereus Fabricus. Ent. Syst., II, 1793, p. 423. 



Specimens of both sexes taken on the sandy margins of creeks in Wallace 

 county. 



