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Psyche 
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Dorsum of abdomen with very broad, white to cream, median 
stripe bounded laterally by dark brown areas. Venter yellow with 
two thin dusky longitudinal stripes from epigastric furrow to base 
of spinnerets, bordered by thin yellow stripes which are in turn 
flanked by dusky or sometimes brown color forming a very wide 
median stripe. Venter overlaid with scale-like iridescent hairs. 
Legs yellow. 
Labium dark brown, distal end lighter, yellowish. Endites yellow. 
Sternum yellow, periphery brown. 
Female. Pattern illustrated in Figures i and 2. Face and cheh’cerae 
pale yellow to yellow-orange with brownish stripes beginning under 
ALE, widest at level of AME, and continuing to distal ends of 
chelicerae. White appressed hair between ALE and along sides of 
face. Lower edge of clypeus yellowish. 
Median area of carapace yellow-orange with wide, irregular, brown 
stripes beginning below PLE and continuing to posterior declivity. 
Dorsum of abdomen with broad median white stripe from base 
to tip, bounded by dark brown or black laterally. Cardiac area 
slightly darker than enclosing stripe. Venter with two narrow brown 
stripes from epigastric furrow to spinnerets, bounded by thin yellow 
to cream stripes which are in turn flanked by brown. Brown color 
sometimes filling median space between two narrow brown stripes 
and forming a single broad median stripe. 
Legs yellow to yellow-orange with distal ends of femora and more 
distal leg segments with dusky bands. 
Labium dark brown to black with distal end yellowish. Endites 
yellow-orange, dusky along outer edges. Sternum pale yellow, bor- 
dered by dark brown or black. 
Diagnosis. Oxyopes cougar is very closely related to O. lynx from 
Marathon, Texas. There is a strong resemblance in the palpal 
sclerites and the patellar apophyses of these two species (compare 
Figs. 9, io of this paper with figs. 66, 67 of Brady, 1964). Oxyopes 
cougar is considerably smaller than O. lynx and the patellar apophysis 
and palpal structure is distinct from O. lynx. When the female of O. 
lynx is known, the relationship of these two species will be more 
clearly established. 
Natural Flistory. Oxyopes cougar was taken in pitfall traps in a 
Broomsedge field in Durham Co., North Carolina. Sweeping vegeta- 
tion in this area did not yield any specimens. Lowrie (1969) col- 
lected moderate numbers of this species from June through September 
in herbaceous vegetation of a long-leafed pine ( Pinus palustris Mill.) 
