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Lycosa ( ?) iMMANSUETA, Simon. 

 Die Fauna Sud-west Aust., ii., 1909, p. 183, fig. 1. 

 Hah. — Todraorden, ninety miles west of Oodnadatta, 

 July, 1914. Two female specimens, one adult and damaged 

 and one about half-grown. Although I have inserted a ( ?) 

 in connection with these specimens, I think, notwithstanding 

 that the adult is damaged, there can be little doubt as to the 

 correctness of the determination ; indeed, the eptgynum would 

 seem to bear out this view, although it is unfortunately some- 

 what distorted. 



Lycosa nigropunctata, n. sp. 

 PL Ixviii., figs. 16 and 17. 



9 . Cephalothorax, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. broad ; abdomen, 

 7'2 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. 



(Jejjhalothorax obovate, pilose. Pars ce/phalica arched, 

 raised, orange-yellow, with dark-brown spots, truncated in 

 front, thoracic segm.ent well defined, sides declivous; ocular 

 area longer than broad, clothed with long black hairs, which 

 impart a dark appearance; eyes fringed with grey; cli/pens 

 ■deep, pilose, and furnished with three or four black bristles 

 below front row of eyes. Fam thoracica broad, arched, n^edian 

 and lateral grooves well defined, dark ; marginal hand broad, 

 yellow, spotted with black, fringed with fine hairs. Eyes in 

 three rows of 4, 2, 2 ; anterior row very slightly procurved, 

 small, lateral eyes smallest; the pair constituting the second 

 row are not only large, but are also slightly larger than their 

 near neighbours ; eyes of second row separated from each other 

 by a space equal to fully once their individual diameter, and 

 those of the third row by a space equal to fully twice their 

 individual diameter. Legs long, strong, yellow, hairy, spined, 

 tarsi scopulated, superior claws long. Relative lengths, 4, 1, 

 2, 3. Pajpi long, similar in colour, clothing, and armature to 

 legs. Falces long, strong, tapering, well arched, hairy, yellow, 

 inner margins fringed with coarse black hairs ; fangs long, 

 dark-brown. Maxillae yellow, long, arched, clothed with long 

 coarse hairs or bristles, rounded at heel, apices broad, inclining 

 inwards, inner angles obliquely truncated. Lahium yellow, 

 but darker than maxillae, darkest at base, short, broad, well 

 arched, apex truncated, slightly indented at centre, fringed 

 with dark hairs. Sternum broad, truncated in front, well 

 arched, dark brown, margin yellow, densely clothed with dark 

 hairs. Ahdomen ovate, hairy, overhanging base of cephalo- 

 thorax, upper-surface yellow and having several slightly darker 

 yellow, broad, transverse, curved bars ; these latter are well 

 curved, and do not suggest eschelons ; distributed over the 

 surface there are a number of large and small black spots; 



