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point, or obtusely (to this I have usually given here the name of 

 "the normal marking "), and it is followed to the spinners by a series 

 of, more or less well defined, angular, or curved transverse bars. 

 Another valuable specific character is furnished in most 

 instances by the annotation or non-annulation of the legs, and, 

 as in all other spiders, the palpi of the male and gonital 

 aperture of the female are exceedingly important in the deter- 

 mination of the species. 



GENUS OCYALE, Savigny. DOLOHEDES, Blackw. in part. 



The cephalo-thorax is very strongly constricted on the lateral 

 margins of the caput, the fore part of which is truncated, and 

 has its lower corners considerably expanded. The clypeus is 

 high, and projects forwards. The eyes are small, the anterior 

 row is slightly curved, the convexity of the curve directed for- 

 wards, and its lateral eyes are larger than the centrals. This 

 row (like the corresponding row in all Zycosids) is seated on the 

 more or less vertical face of the caput. The two middle eyes of 

 the posterior row form in this and other genera the second or 

 intermediate row. They are placed on the upper edge of the 

 fore part of the caput, and form a much shorter line than the 

 anterior row. The third row (formed by the two lateral eyes of 

 tho ordinary posterior row, but in this and other Lycosid genera 

 called the third or posterior row) is the longest, and forms, with 

 the second row, a quadrilateral figure whose transverse diameter 

 is greater than its longitudinal one. Tho eyes of the third row 

 are placed rather on the sides of the upper part of the caput. 

 The intervals between the three rows of eyes is about equal. 

 The legs are long, not very unequal, moderately strong ; their 

 relative length is 4.1.2.3., and there are spines on the femora, 

 genua, tibice, and metatarsi. 



Abdomen rather narrow, elongate oval ; spinners short. 



The maxillco are straight, moderately long, enlarged and 

 somewhat rounded at their extremity. 



The labium is scarcely half the length of the niaxillso, slightly 

 broader than long, and truncate at its apex. 



