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behind the eyes, and a stellate or radiated one at the junction of 

 the caput and thorax ; between the two markings are two black 

 spots or blotches in a short transverse line. The ocular area is 

 black, and behind each of the two posterior eyes is a strongish, 

 oblique patch of red brown. It should be mentioned that the 

 transverse oblong behind the eyes always contains two small 

 black spots in a transverse line on the middle. The whole 

 cephalo-thorax is clothed with yellow grey pubescence, so that 

 (as is the case also with may other species) the pattern only 

 comes out strongly when the spider is immersed in spirit. 



The legs are reddish yellow-brown, in general distinctly 

 annulated with black, or black brown ; the paler parts, and 

 often the whole, clothed with greyish-white pubescence. 



The palpi are similar to the legs in colour and markings. 

 The digital joint is dark reddish-brown, and of an elongate, 

 narrow-oval form, but not quite so narrow as that of Trochosa 

 leopurdus. The position and general form and structure of th e 

 palpal organs are very like those of that species. 



The eyes of the central pair of the anterior row are slightly 

 larger than the latorals. 



The abdomen is rather broadest behind. The upper side is 

 strikingly variegated with black, brown, white, greyish-yellow 

 and red-brown— often also with bright reddish; presenting at 

 first sight, no very easily traceable pattern ; however in most cases 

 the usual pattern may be discerned on the upper side. The normal 

 longitudinal marking on the fore half is of a greyish yellow- 

 brown colour, black at its fore part, edged with black posteriorly, 

 and with a black prominent marking, joined to a yellowish spot 

 behind it, at the broadest part. The hinder extremity of the 

 normal marking is the narrowest, and is truncated; on each 

 Bide of its fore part, contiguous and often confluent with it, 

 is a large, irregular oval, reddish-yellow, whitish, or brownish- 

 yellow marking ; on the hinder half of the abdomen is a 

 longitudinal, central, yellowish-brown band containing the 

 normal angular bars ; these are generally of a clearer yellow- 



