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yellow, clothed with coarse black hairs. Abdomen ovate r 

 overhanging base of cephalothorax, hairy, well arched ; 

 superior surface yellow, spotted with dark brown and orna- 

 mented with a design of same ; sides yellow, spotted with 

 dark brown : inferior surface dull yellow. E pigi/num some- 

 what mitre-shaped, slightly raised, orange-red, with two long 

 lateral black ridges, the latter bridged at anterior extremity 

 (fig. 9). 



II ab . — Cooper Creek. 



Lycosa godeffroyi, L. Koch. 



Koch: Verh. der K.K. Zool.-Bot. ^Ges. Wien, I860, p. 867- 

 Die Arach. des Austr., ii., 1877, p. 957, pi. lxxxiii., figs. 3, 3a, 

 4, 4a; L. bellatrix, L. Koch: Ver der K.K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 

 I860, p. 866. 



Hab. — Strzelecki Creek and Cooper Creek. 



Note. — Common and widely distributed. 



Lycosa nigropunctata, Rainb. 



Rainbow: Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xxxix., 1915, p. 787, 

 pi. lxviii.j figs. 16, 17. 



Hab . — Innamincka. Previously reported from Musgrave 

 Ranges. 



Lycosa celaenica/ 5 ) n. sp. 

 PI. xxxii., figs. 10, 11. 



9- Cephalothorax 5*8 mm. broad, 4'3 mm. long- 

 abdomen 6 mm. long, 4'3 mm. broad (fig. 10). 



Cephalothorax obovate, hairy. Pars cephalica dark 

 reddish-brown with a broad yellow patch extending from near 

 the middle to the base, well arched, sides declivous, slightly 

 raised, truncated in front, segmented groove distinct; ocular 

 area broader than long, and furnished with a tuft of long 

 black bristles immediately below median pair of eyes ; clypeus 

 broad, deep, fringed with long coarse black bristles. Pars 

 thoracica dark reddish-brown, yellow at the centre and later- 

 ally, well arched, radial grooves and median fovea distinct; 

 marginal band broad, dark brown. Eyes distributed over 

 three rows of 4, 2, 2. Front row slightly recurved, the eyes 

 small and placed closely together ; those of the second row 

 largest of the series, and separated from each other by a 

 space equal to rather less than once their individual diameter; 

 rear pair seated about twice their individual diameter from 

 their median neighbours, and again from each other by a 

 space equal to four times their own individual diameter. 

 Legs long, strong, tapering, hairy, spined, yellow, faintly 

 annulated with brown; relative length, 4, 1, 2, 3. Palpi 



(:!) K€/\aii'tKOs = dark. 



