HORN EXPEDITION—ARANEID.E. 
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This species, while agreeing in synoptical points with L. egeria* L. Koch, 
differs from it in its lighter colouring, the pattern and blunter shape of the 
abdomen, the proportion of its legs (much shorter thiixl pair) shape of epigyne, 
straighter fi’ont row of eyes, and the front I'ow of eyes nearer together; no 
scopula on the tarsal joint. 
Lycosa. 
Lycosa topaziopsis, sp. n. (Fig. 14). 
Cephalothorax rich ochre-brown on the sides, forehead, and middle ridge; two 
darker brown stripes from behind the hinder row of eyes to the hind slope of the 
cephalothorax, thickly covered with smooth close hair, lighter bi'own at the sides 
and in the middle, darker along the stripes. A few pale, almost white, erect hairs 
along the margin of the clypeus and round the side edge of the cephalic part. Long 
upstanding black bristles sparsely scattered over the pars cephalica. Legs and 
palpi pale brown, with short close similar-coloured hair, paler and more upstanding 
on the palpi, interspersed with long black erect hairs, longer and blacker still on 
the tarsus and metatarsus. Scopula on the under side of the tarsus and metatarsus 
ashy-grey. Eyes most brilliant tt)paz colour, with black pupils. IVfandibles dark 
brown, rather thickly covered with smooth short yellow hair, mixed with long erect 
black hair; fangs red. Lip, maxilhe, and sternum dark grey, with black hair. 
The coxse are dirty dark yellowish-brown ; a dark grey fringe is present on the lip 
and maxilhe. Abdomen underneath brownish-grey in front of the epigyne. From 
the latter half-way to the spinnerets is a black transverse band, the rear part of 
which is pale brown in colour. On the upper surface is a thick mat of black, 
brown, and grey bristly hair. 
Cephalothorax as long as the patella and tibia IV. ; between the second and 
third pairs of legs as broad as patella and tibia III. Square in front, slightly 
rounded at the sides. At the hinder end a steep slope with medial indentation in 
the margin ; at the head part arched transversely, more sloping and rounded 
oil at the front corners. 
Eyes .—The front row straight; the two middle eyes half a diameter apart, 
and not half of their diameter from the margin of the clypeus ; front side eyes 
half of their diameter from the middle eyes, and in size tw'o-thirds of the diameter 
of the middle eyes. Front row slightly narrower than the second row. Second 
or middle row three times the diameter of the front middle eyes, two-thirds of their 
* Die Arach. Aust., pp. S95 and 935. 
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