1878. ] Zoslog , 395 - 
thighs, more than double as long as broad at the base, shining, 
and somewhat hairy; their back is moderately convex towards the 
base ; their outer side is straight ; on the inner, towards the apex, 
they are gradually narrowing, and slightly rounded; the claw 
furrow is armed with rather small teeth, the claw is long and 
slender. Maxillz rounded on the outer side and at the apex, 
slightly inclined towards the labium, which is transverse and 
broadly truncate. Palpi provided with coarse hairs; their tarsal 
joint is cylindrical and obtuse at the apex. egs slender, wit 
as long as the patella. Abdomen inversely ovate, shining and 
covered, though not thickly, with very fine hairs; the vulva con- 
sists of a shallow transverse somewhat elliptical fovea near the 
rima genitalis, the anterior margin of which here forms an ele- 
vated rather thick, shining costa, narrowing from the rounded ex- 
tremities towards the middle, in front, and thus slightly curved 
forwards, and bordering the fovea behind, and on the sides; the 
hind part of this costa (or the anterior elevated margin of the rima 
genitalis), seen from behind, exhibits two small narrow transverse 
foveæ in front of the larger fovea; the area vulvæ is somewhat 
striated transversely. : 
olor.—Cephalathorax, sternum, lip and maxillæ black, the 
Maxillz a little paler. Mandibles dark yellowish, with three 
longitudinal black stripes. Palpi and legs of a very dull blackish 
yellow color. Abdomen grayish black, somewhat olivaceous on 
the under part; the hairs with which it is covered are olivaceous 
yellow, The area vulvz is black, its hind elevated border brown. 
Length of body nearly three millim.; length of cephalothorax 
three-quarters, of abdomen one and five-sixths millim., breadth of 
abdomen one and one-half millim. Legs I two and two-thirds, 
II nearly two and one-half, III two and one-quarter, IV nearly 
three and one-quarter millim.; pat. + tib. IV. nearly one millim. 
A single female of this obscure species, which appears to be- 
long to the Æ. dongipalpis group, was found at Polaris Bay. 
3. Lycosa glacialis Thor. 5 | 
Syn. 1872. Lycosa glacialis Thor. Om nagra Arachn. fr. Grönland, 
loc. cit., p. 150. o 
1877. 3% 3 Cambr., loc. cit. p. 281. 
One adult female example from Foulke fiord.* 
4. Trochesa inc. spec. : 
oung female of a Lycosoid which belongs, À hink, to the 
t : 
genus Trochosa, was captured at Polaris Bay. The example is 
1 I take this opportunity to 
L. indagatrix and L. impavida, described in my paper, Descriptions of thia Amane 
os Colorado in 1875 by A. S. Packard, Jr. (Bull. of the 
eograph. Survey, III, No. 2, pp. 512, 513), 
L. indagatrix I propose the name Z.dromea ; for L. impavida that of L. tachypoda. 
