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median band extending the whole length of the dorsnin, widest at 

 the middle and anteriorly with a black edging on each margin of 

 it, on each side of this median band paler grayish-brown with a 

 rather indistinct large brownish sj>ot at each antero-lateral margin ; 

 sides mottled with gray and reddish-brown; venter with a trans- 

 verse row of three large black spots just behind the plane of the 

 epigynum. and a blackish area extending from them and converg- 

 ing toward but not reaching the spinnerets, this black area bor- 

 dered on each side by a line of contiguous buff dots; in the 

 other ? the venter shows this blackish area in the same position, 

 and scattered assymmetrically upon and around it about 1(5 deep 

 black spots of varying size. Epigynum black, region about it 

 yellowish. Spinnerets brown, Chelicera black, rnaxilkc and 

 labium dark reddish-brown like the ventral surface of the coxce. 

 Legs light chocolate-brown without darker markings, the dorsal 

 surface of the coxse black. 



Comparisons. — A well-defined species, agreeing with Hentz's 

 description and figures. The specimens labeled by Stone " punc- 

 tulaia ' ' and described as such by him are individuals of L. scutu- 

 lata in which the dorso-median band of the abdomen is not notchefl 

 posteriorly. 



11. Lycosa scutulata Hentz, (PL XXIX, iigs. 15, Ifi.) 



Lycosa scutulata Hentz, 1841. 

 Lycosa scutulata Plentz, Emertou, 1885. 

 Lycosa scutulata Hentz, Marx, 1889. 

 Lycosa scutulata Hentz, Stone, 1890. 

 Lycosa purti'tulata Hentz, Stone, 1890. 

 Lycosa scutulata Hentz, Banks, 1892. 



(Numerous specimens from Philadelphia, Chester county, York 

 Furnace, Pa. ; Pt. Pleasant, N. J. ) 



Exjes. — First row shorter than the second, the lateral eyes con- 

 siderably lower than the middle. Eyes of second row largest, less 

 than their diameter apart. Third row widest, its eyes nearer 

 second row than each other. Dorsal eye area about one-fifth the 

 length of the cephalothorax. 



Form. — Cephalothorax narrow, in front not quite half its greatest 

 transverse diameter, highest at the posterior eyes. Sides of head 

 rather steep. Chelicera slightly more than 1^ times as long as 

 the head is high in front. Sternum longer than liroad. Legs long 

 and rather slender. 



