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white, and between this stripe and the margin another band of blaci<. 

 The sternum is also black. These black areas, above and below, are 

 more or less dotted over with light spots. 



I have taken but one specimen of this spider in sweeping, 

 but secured over a hundred mature females from the provision 

 stores of mud-dauber wasps in Wallace County, July i6th. 



Family I.YCOSID^. 

 Lycosa wacondana sp. nov. (Fig. 7.) 



A small species, found about springs or creeks on the 

 prairies. 



Female. — Length 7-8 mm. ; width of cephalothorax 3 mm. The ab- 

 domen is slightly longer than the cephalothorax, which is narrow in 

 front and widens rapidly back of the head, the thoracic region proper 

 being as broad as it is long. The posterior margin of the cephalothorax 

 is very noticably procurved above the peduncle. 



The legs are rather long and slender. The fourth pair is longest, 

 measuring about 13 mm. The front pair measures 10 mm. They are 

 sparsely covered with dark hairs and beset with black spines. 



The ground color of the legs is dull yellow, but they are darker 

 toward the ends, and some of the joints, particularly the femora, are 

 banded near the middle and at their extremities by the darker shade. 

 The coxae are lighter above and below than the general ground color of 

 the legs. At the proximal end of the trochanters, anteriorly, is a slight 

 roughened prominence or two much darker in color. The brownish 

 cephalothorax presents a dull yellow middle stripe, widest back of the 

 eyes, and two somewhat undulating lateral stripes of the same color. 

 The dorsal groove is marked by a fine dark line. From its anterior end 

 a forked stripe of brown runs forward to the eyes. In the brown area 

 between the central and lateral stripes of the cephalothorax are several 

 darker streaks arranged radially from the dorsal groove. The ground 

 color of the abdomen is a darker brown than that of the cephalothorax. 

 It is finely punctate with dull yellow. On the front half is a pointed 

 yellow stripe running back to the region of the muscle depressions, and 

 there are faint indications of transverse streaks on the hinder half. The 

 sternum is light in the middle and darker around the edges. The under 

 side of the abdomen is similarly colored, except that in the central line of 

 the lighter area is a darker streak running from the epigynum to the 

 spinnerets. 



I do not know the male of this species. Have taken the 

 female in June about Manhattan, and in August at Waconda 

 Springs. On the latter occasion nearly all the females were 

 carrying cocoons of eggs. 



