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6'. Clypeus not wider than the diameter of the front 

 median eyes. 

 a*. Abdomen underneath wholly brown or black. 

 a^. Black underneath ; a dark pattern on buff 

 ground on upper side. Median and marginal 



stripes on cephiilothorax L. ohscut-a h. Koch. 



b^. Brown underneath. 

 a''. Dull dingy brown underneath, j'ellow-brown 

 above ; pale median and marginal stripes on 



cephalothorax i. gilberta, sp. nov. 



f/'. Bright chocolate-brown underneath, with large 



buff spot on upper side at base. Legs brown * 

 from base to middle of patella, remainder 



buff i. hicolor, sp. nov. 



h^. A triangular shield pattern underneath abdomen on 

 creamj -yellow ground. 

 aj. No pale median or marginal stripes on cephalo- 

 thorax. 

 a^. Shield brown. 



a^. Shield long and narrow, pale chestnut. 



Clypeus as broad as front median eyes L. castanea, sp. nov. 



h^. Shield broad oval, dark brown edged with 

 yellow stripes. Clypeu.s three-fourtlis the 



diameter of front median eyes L. errans, sp. nov. 



6S. Shield black. 

 a^^. Shield reaching only about halfway to spin- 

 nerets. Eyes of second row less than half 



their diameter apart L. Icsta ? L. K. 



6"^. Shield reaching nearly to spinnerets. Eyes 

 of second row four-fifths of their diameter 



apart L. phyllis, sp. nov. 



6'. Pale median and marginal stripes on cephalo- 

 thorax. 



A dark brown nearly black shield halfway to 

 spinnerets. Clypeus only slightly narrower 

 than front median eves i. clara ? L. K. 



Lycosa tasmanica, sp. nov. (Text-fig. 80, p. 572.) 



Cephalothorax dark brown, with narrow paler marginal and 

 side stripes and only faint median stripe. The mandibles are 

 black-brown, with yellow-brown hair on upper and outer portions. 

 Lip, maxilla?, sternum, and cox8e black-brown, with dark brown 

 hair. The upper side of the abdomen has a dark brown bell-shaped 

 pattern at the base marked out with yellow-brown streaks on 

 chocolate-brown ground. The posterior half is dark brown, with 

 faint traces of paler transverse stripes. There is a rather pale 

 stripe down each side separating the back colovir from the wholly 

 black- brown field on the under side. The legs and palpi are 

 chocolate-brown all over, except the under side of the femora 

 which are palei- yellowish grey. 



The cephalothorax is of the broad frontal type, being three-fifths 

 of its greatest breadth at the base of the mandibles, and one-fourth 

 of the same only in height from the mandibles to the level of the 

 rear row of eyes. 



The front row of eyes appears slightly procurved, the side eyes 

 being as broad as the median eyes, but oval. The latter are half 

 their diameters apart and rather less from the side eyes. The 

 clypeus is wider than the median eyes. The latter are their 



