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Color in Alcohol, ?. — Cephalothorax dark reddish -brown, a 

 broad median band of yellowisli-brown (with Avhite hairs) from 

 the posterior eyes to the posterior end of the thorax, a narrow 

 marginal line of white hairs, posteiior eyes surrounded by black, 

 sometimes an indistinct light submargiual baud. AJbdomen above 

 brown or yellowish-brown, a pair of small black spots on the ante- 

 rior third of the dorsum near the mid-line, a large black spot at 

 each antero-lateral margin of the doi'sum continued caudad as an 

 indistinct blackish band; sides lighter brown; venter yellowish 

 with a broad blackish area extending from the epigynum to the 

 spinnerets and not sharply bounded laterally, and indistinct black- 

 ish spots in the lateral yellow area. Sternum reddish-brown with 

 black hairs. Chelicera black or reddish -black, Avith a black 

 prominence at the supei'o-lateral angle. Labium blackish. 3fax- 

 illce blackish with yellow distal ends. Legs reddish-brown, with 

 no distinct darker markings. Palpi colored like legs. 



The d^c? are colored similai'ly, but darker. The abdomen above 

 is more grayish, with the black markings more distinct. The legs 

 also are darker than in the ?, and with darker markings on the 

 femora. 



Comparison. — Compare I^ycosa jyurcelli n. sp. 

 20. Lycosa Purcelli n. sp. (PI. XXX, figs. 30, 31.) 



V Lycosa l-ocMi Keyserling, Emerton, 1885. 

 Lycosa kochii Keyserling, Stone, 1890. 

 Tarentula kochii Keys., Marx, 1889 {i a parte). 

 1 Lycosa kocki Keys., Banks, 1892. 

 nee Tarentula Kochii Keyserling, 1876. 



(Types in Stone Coll., ? from Philadelphia, J' from Pt. Pleasant, 

 N. J. ; other .specimens from Philadelphia and Chester county. 

 Pa.; AValerford, N. J.) 



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

 lower, middle eyes nearer the lateral than each other; eyes of the 

 second row largest, about their diameter apart ; third row broadest, 

 its eyes a little farther from each other than from the eyes of the 

 second row. Dorsal eye area about one-sixth the length of the 

 cephalothorax , 



Form. — Cephalothorax flattened above, highest behind the mid- 

 dle, in front nearly one-half its greatest transverse diameter. 

 Head low in front and its sides rather oblique Chelicera massive. 



