684 MR. H. a. HOGG ON [Dec. 12, 



Legs 



Lycosa stirling.e, sp. nov. (Text-fig. 87.) 



Female. Oeplialothorax bi-own, with paler median, side, and 

 marginal stripes. Mandibles black-brown, with red-brown hair. 

 Lip, maxilla?, and sternum red-brown, with dark red-brown hair. 

 Coxa? dark red-brown, with paler yellow-brown hair at anterior 

 ends. 



The abdomen above is black-brown, with dark red-brown hair 

 and with just a faint pattern. TJndei-neath bright red-brown, 

 with black shield broadest at the genital fold and tapering to the 

 spinnerets. 



Legs and palpi yellow-brown all over, lighter on the under sides. 



In the male the stripes on the cephalothorax are more silvery, 

 and the hair on the coxje and legs generally paler yellow- brown. 



The cephalothorax is of the high narrow type, the clypeus 

 being more than twice as wide as the front median eyes. 



The front row of eyes is slightly pi'ocurved, the median eyes 

 slightly less than their diameter apart and the same distance from 

 those of the second row. The laterals have their diameter slightly 

 smaller than that of the median, and are | of it from the median. 



The eyes of the second row are twice the diameter of the front 

 median apart, and their diametei- slightly more. 



The eyes of the third row are four times theii- diameter apart. 



In the male the front row of eyes is rather more procurved than 

 in the female, and the eyes of the second row just their diameter 

 apai't. 



The mandibles are longer than the width of the cephalothoiux 

 in fi'ont. They have three large equal teeth on the lower edge of 

 the falx-sheath and one large between two small on the upper 

 edge. 



The li]) is as broad as long and less than half the height of the 

 maxilla?. 



The sternum is of a broad shield-shape, thickly covered with 

 coarse flatly placed hairs. 



The legs are thickly covered with short flatly placed hairs, there 

 are no bare long streaks, and a fair number of erect bristles. On 

 the upper side of the tibial joint the female has two spines on 

 the 3rd and 4th pairs. In the male two on all the tibije. 



The tibial joint of the j9a?j»i is longer than the patella. 



In the female the epigyne is nai-rowest anteriorly, and is 

 2^ times as long as it is broad at the base. The median ridge is 

 broadest at the base and tapers anteriorly. Outside the epigyne 

 propel', on each side of the base, is a darkened oval hollow, with 

 its longer diameter lying longitudinally. 



