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Two females were found by Miss E. B. Bryant, one in Allston, 

 Mass., and the other at Pong Island, Portland, Maine. 



Lycosa frondicola, Ein. N. E. Lycosida;. 



L. nigroventris, Em. is the male of this species. 



This species and L. Kochii are often found in the same localities. 

 They both mature late in autumn and carry their cocoons of eggs 

 in Ma}'. Frondicola is darker brown and less mottled than Kochii. 

 The middle stripe of the cephalothorax is straight in frondicola and 

 notched at the sides in Kochii. The young of frondicola are more 

 mottled on the legs than the adult and resemble the young of L. cinerea. 

 The L. nigroventris described in N. E. Spiders is an unusually large 

 male frondicola. The male is usually two thirds the size of the 

 female with the under side darker. The legs are lighter and the 

 markings on back of abdomen more distinct. 



Lycosa carolinensis, Hentz. 



Mr. W. L. W. Field of Milton, Mass., has watched for many seasons 

 a large number of these spiders in a pasture on a gravelly hillside, 

 where they make holes six or eight inches deep, sometimes straight 

 and sometimes curved irregularly, to avoid large stones. Sometimes 

 the mouth of the hole is funnel-shaped, spreading to twice the 

 diameter of the lower part of the tube. The males appear only in 

 the late summer, and the fertilized females winter in the tubes which 

 are closed partly by the wheather, and lay their eggs in the last 

 of May or June. In the summer the half-grown spiders are some- 

 times found without holes, and they have been known to abandon 

 their holes and make new ones. 



Lycosa baltimoriana, Keys. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 187C. (Plate Vll, 

 figures 1, la, lb.) 



This is a large and distinctly marked species, the female 15 mm. 

 long, the cephalothorax 8 mm. long, and 5.5 mm. wide. The eye 

 area is small, occupying one-third the width of the head and 

 one-sixth the length of the cephalothorax. The front and second 

 rows of eyes are of the same length. The legs are of moderate 

 length, as in carolinensis and tigrina. The general color is gray 

 like carolinensis with black markings. The cephalothorax has in- 

 distinct dark radiating lines. The back of the abdomen has a dark 

 spot following the shape of the heart, and behind it two or three 

 irregular triangular spots, and along the sides are other irregular 

 markings. On the under side of the abdomen is a square black 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XIV. 14 January, 1909. 



