196 
Psyche 
[June-September 
1959, 5 (J. C. Bequaert). Jasper Co.: Jasper, 5 Feb. 1962, $ (Science 
Club). Walker Co.: Huntsville, 2 Oct. 1950, (Joo (W. J. Gertsch). 
Wichita Co.: Burkburnett, 12 Oct. 1964, 3(3<3:9§:o (K. W. Haller). 
Trochosa gosiuta (Chamberlin) 
Figures 4, 26, 27, 44-46. Map 2. 
Lycosa avara var. gosiuta Chamberlin, 1908: 281, pi. 20, fig. 4, $. Female syntypes 
from Utah, lost. Petrunkevitch 1911: 556. 
Lycosa gosiuta: Banks 1910: 56. Chamberlin and Gertsch 1928: 186. Chamberlin and 
Woodbury 1929: 140. Banks and Newport 1932: 31. Gertsch 1935: 20. Bonnet 
1957: 2609. 
Trochosa (Varacosa) gosiuta: Chamberlin and Ivie: 1942: 37. 
Varacosa avara: Roewer 1954: 306. 
Discussion. Trochosa gosiuta was first described by Chamberlin 
(1908) as a variety of avara. He indicated that females from Utah of 
this variety differed from avara in the shape of the epigynum. No 
type specimen was designated and the specimens from Utah upon 
which Chamberlin based the name gosiuta have apparently been 
lost. 
Color. Females. Face orange-brown, yellowish along lower edge 
of clypeus. Eye nacelles black. Chelicerae brown to dark reddish 
brown. 
Carapace orange-brown with broad median pale brownish yellow 
(golden) stripe, with dusky lines radiating from thoracic groove, and 
with brownish yellow submarginal stripes as in Figure 4. 
Dorsum of abdomen pale brown ground color, freckled with 
numerous yellow and black spots, without distinct pattern as in 
Figure 4. Cardiac area light reddish brown. Venter pale brownish 
yellow with black spots laterally. 
Legs pale yellow to brownish yellow, lighter ventrally. 
Labium yellow, lighter yellow to cream distally. Endites brown 
with yellow distal ends. Sternum yellow. 
Color. Males. Face pale yellow to orange-yellow. Lighter along 
lower edge of clypeus. Chelicerae pale yellow to golden. Eye nacelles 
black. Cymbium of palpus yellow. 
Dorsum of abdomen pale brownish yellow with irregular spots of 
gray-brown or black without distinct pattern; venter pale yellow to 
cream with a few scattered gray to black spots laterally. 
Legs light brownish yellow to pale yellow with ventral surface a 
lighter shade. 
