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HORN EXPEDITION—ARANEIDiE. 
Eyes of the third row = tlie same distance from second = diameters of the front 
middle eyes, and three of their own diameters apart. 
Mandibles longer than patella IV. ; arched, shiny, with thin long pendent 
hair on their inner and lower edges ; a rake of powerful teeth, live on the inner 
falx ridge, three on the outer edge. Fangs long and powerful. 
Maxilke arched, rounded in front and outer edge, upright, parallel, narrowing 
to the base, covered with long thin erect hair ; thin dark brown fringe. 
Lip free, half as long as the maxilhe, somewhat narrower in front, with a 
straight fore edge. 
Sternuni cordate, Hat, shiny, with long thin erect hairs. 
Abdomen oval, rounded in front and at the rear and sides ; steep at the sides 
and arched transversely, smooth, with short down-lying hair here and there in 
patches. 
Legs long and moderately powerful ; femur arched and thickest in the middle, 
and with three dark rings all round ; a tlark ring at the extremity of the tibia ; 
three claws on the tarsus, two upper long and thin, with small pectinations for 
about one-third of the length from tbe base. Legs quite smooth and bare, with 
long brown spines, a thin black scopula on the tarsus only. 
Epigyne a semi-elliptical shield, with long angular openings at the base, the 
small ends meeting in the middle. 
iSuperlicially tliis Lycosa is not unlike Z. crispipes, but the epigyne is quite 
ditlerent. It may also be distinguished by the dillerent hairing of the shanks, 
maxilhe, and sternum, which latter is in crispipes short thick and yellow, instead 
of smooth and mottled with brown. The tarsal claws are not pectinated far from 
the base. Legs I. longer than II. and III., instead of equal to II. and longer 
than III. It agrees in nearly all respects with L. Koch’s Z. berenice, but the body 
is twice as long and the legs three times. It is also genei’ally of a darker colour, 
and has no pattern on the back ; the eyes of front row are nearer together and the 
epigyne are ditferent. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalothorax, length 
i mm. 
., breadth 
Abdomen, length 
,, breadth 
