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THE COMMON SPIDERS 



Ficis. i86, 187, 188. Pardosa 

 lapidicina. — 186, female en- 

 larged four times. 187, 

 side of cephalothorax. 

 iSS, epigvniim. 



legs, the fourth 

 The color is 

 with black 

 ings (fig. 186). 

 being wet, the J 



THE GENUS PARDOSA 



iists of comparatively 

 Df them long legged and 

 lead is high in front, and 

 ;he four upper eyes large 

 pread over the whole front 

 c head (fig. 200). The 

 runt row of eyes is plainly 

 horter than the second 

 ow. The colors are gener- 

 ally dark, often 

 black, and with 

 white markings. 

 The spines of the 

 legs are long, even 

 on the front pairs, 

 and the whole body 

 is often covered 

 with long hairs. To 

 show the compara- 

 ^86 tive size of the dif- 



ferent species of this genus, all 

 the figures are made on the 

 same scale, four times the 

 real size. 

 Pardosa lapidicina. — Four -fifths 

 of an inch long and with long 

 pair three-quarters of an inch long, 

 black, the whole body being covered 

 hairs that obscure the few light mark- 

 When looked at closely, especially after 

 legs appear a little lighter colored toward 



