1905.J 



SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS 



575 



Two females from the Gilbert River, Riveiina, sent by 

 Mr. A. Molyneux. One female from Kangaroo Island (A. Zietz), 

 paler and rather smaller. 



Lycosa molyxeuxi, sp. nov. (Text-fig. 82.) 



The cephalothorax is red-brown, with pale to darker yellow- 

 brown downlying hair intermixed with dark brown upstanding 

 hair ; a paler marginal and median stripe with side-streaks the 

 same. 



Text-fig. 82. 



Lycosa molyneuxi. 

 a, ej'es from front ; h, epigyue. 



The mandibles are black-brown, with yellow-brown hair except 

 on the lower inner edges of the falx, which are bare. The lip, 

 maxillfe, sternum, and cox?e are reddish-brown with yellow-brown 

 hair. The legs and palpi yellow-brown ; the vmder side of the 

 femoral joints much paler than above. 



The abdomen is yellow-brown above, with a small darker patch 

 at the base and two pairs of darker spots near the middle. The 

 sides are pale. The under side of the abdomen is a bright rich 

 brown anteriorly, with two broad stripes of the same curving 

 inwards and joining in front of the spinnerets, which are of the 

 same colour. The space enclosed from the genital fovea to the 

 point of juncture is of a pale buff. 



The cephalothorax is rather narrow in front and shorter than 

 patella cum tibia iv. 



