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Coxa. 



Legs 1 

 2 



3 



4 



In M. flavipes, L. K., the legs are wholly yellowish brown, and 

 in M. albopunctata, H. R. Hogg, black all over, with white 

 patches of plumose hair. In M. bicolor the front middle eyes are 

 much larger than the side, and the black cephalothorax and 

 abdomen, with yellow two front pairs of legs, are distinctive 

 features. M. semiflava, E. tSim., has a yellowish brown cephalo- 

 thorax, wdth front, middle, and side eyes apparently about the 

 same as M. bicolor, from which the black cephalothorax easily 

 distinguishes it. 



M. Eugene Simon {loc. cit. vol. ii., p. 320) divides his family of 

 Lycosidae into, among other groups, Lycoseae and Pardoseae, the 

 members of the former being distinguished by having the lip 

 longer than broad, and metatarsus IV. shorter than patella cum 

 tibia IV. 



In Pardoseae the lip is shorter than broad and metatarsus IV. 

 as long as or longer than patella cum tibia IV. 



In the species described below the lip is distinctly less in 

 length than in breadth, the characteristic of Pardosa, but meta- 

 tarsus IV. is also distinctly shorter than patella cum tibia IV., 

 thus possessing characteristics specially distinctive of each of the 

 two groups. 



The lip makes it a Pardosa, C. Koch, and it certainly does not 

 conform to Lycosa, Latreille, in respect of that organ. The third 

 tooth of the lower falx edge is not " much smaller than the first 

 and second," as they are all nearly equal, the middle being rather 

 the largest, but not materially so. For the present, therefore, I 

 am obliged to make my three new species, all of which are alike 

 in the above details, into a new genus, which I call Venator. 



VENATOR, gen. nov. 



The genus Venator will differ from Pardosa in having meta- 

 tarsus IV. shorter than patella cum tibia IV. and three large 

 teeth on the lower falx sheath margin nearly the same size, as in 

 Lycosa. 



Type V. spenceri. 8a 



