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trausversely connected by angular black lines each margined poste- 

 riorly with a narrow line of white hairs, and at the middle point 

 of each black transverse line a black spot; on the anterior half of 

 the dorsum two small round spots, each black medially and white 

 laterally, placed close together near the mid-line. Sides of abdo- 

 men brownish w'ith numerous small white spots. Venter pale gray, 

 with small black spots converging more or less as curved lines 

 toward the spinnerets and variable in number and size. Lung 

 books pale yellowish-white and very distinct. Epigynum rusty 

 brown. Labium deep ferruginous, almost black; chelicera the 

 same color on their anterior but a little paler on their posterior 

 surface. Maxilke pale yellowish-brown like the ventral surface of 

 the coxae. All the legs distinctly banded with buff and black above 

 and below on all the joints except the metatarsi, which are 

 yellowish-brown. Palpi similarly colored. 



In alcohol the buff markings and thoracal stripe in the 9 change 

 to reddish, and the black of the cephalothorax, except around the 

 eyes, to a deep reddish-brown. 



Comparisons. — This beautiful small woodland species I take 

 l^leasure in naming for my friend, Mr. AVitmer Stone, who was 

 the first to monograph the Lycosids of this vicinity. 



L. stonei shows a marked sexual difference in coloration, more 

 than any other of the local forms, but as I have observed the 

 copulation and mating, tnere is no doubt of the specific identity of 

 the males and females here described. 



It is a very well-marked species, the thick brush of hairs on the 

 first tibia of the c? being shared only by the cT of L. ocreata, 

 while the epigynum is easily distinguished by the great breadth of 

 its median piece. In the slenderness and great length of the legs, 

 as well as in the size of the dorsal eye area, it resembles Pardosa, 

 but in all other characters is a typical Lycosa. 



8. Lycosa verisimilis n. .sp. (I'l. XXIX, figs. 11, 12.) 



(1?, type, Westchester, Pa. 1 d, type, Philadelphia ; author's 

 collection). 



Eyes. — First row shorter than second, the middle eyes slightly 

 larger and higher and closer together than to the lateral eyes. 

 Eyes of second row circular and fully their diameter apart. Eyes 

 of third row oval and nearer the narrower second row than each 



