1986] Brady — Nearctic Gladicosa 291 
male syntype from Point Pleasant, Ocean Co., New Jersey, 30 April 1889 (N.J. 
Stone), examined. Synonymized with Lycosa kochi: Emerton by Gertsch and 
Wallace 1935: 21. 
Trochosa purcelli, Montgomery, 1904: 301, 305. 
Lycosa pulchra: Chamberlin 1904: 147 (part); Banks 1910: 57 (part). 
Varacosa gulosa: Roewer 1954: 306. 
Alopecosa gulosa: Bonnet 1955: 248. 
Discussion. The nomenclatural history of G. gulosa is complex. 
Walckenaer’s (1837) seven-line description without figures is not 
diagnostic for this species. The locality given is North America, and 
that doesn’t help. To complicate matters, Emerton (1885) misidenti- 
fied this species as Tarentula kochi Keyserling and transferred it to 
the genus Lycosa. Gertsch and Wallace (1935) discussed the syste- 
matic and nomenclatural problems associated with G. gulosa and 
suggested using the name Lycosa kochi Emerton for this species 
since Emerton (1885) had placed the species in a different genus. 
However, according to Article 49 of the International Code of Zoo- 
logical Nomenclature (1985): “A previously established species- 
group name wrongly used to denote a species-group taxon because 
of misidentification cannot be used for that taxon even if it and the 
taxon to which the name correctly applies are in, or are later 
assigned to, different genera, except when a previous misidentifca- 
tion is deliberately used in fixing the type species of a new nominal 
genus.” Bonnet (1955) points out that the name nigraurata or pure- 
celli of Montgomery should have been used for the species. Mont- 
gomery (1904) himself synonymized nigraurata with purcelli and 
the name purcelli has been used only by Montgomery (1902, 1904). 
The name gulosa, on the other hand, has been employed numerous 
times since Gertsch and Wallace’s (1935) invocation of kochi, and 
even by Gertsch (1949) in his book American Spiders. It therefore 
seems best to retain the name gulosa for this species to promote 
stability of nomenclature by preserving a long accepted name in its 
accustomed meaning. 
Color. Females. Face yellow or yellow-orange, to pale golden 
brown. Eye region darker with nacelles black. Chelicerae yellowish 
brown to dark reddish brown, almost black at distal ends. Condyles 
yellow or orange, to golden brown. 
Carapace light brown to brown, with broad yellow to yellow- 
orange median stripe. Narrow irregular submarginal yellow stripes 
suffused with brown. Posterior declivity with black patches as in 
Figure 3. 
