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conceals itself under some leaves or rubbish until danger is past.’” 
I have never found the nursery web of this species but it doubtless 
resembles that of related forms. The egg sac of a very large female 
was three-quarters of an inch in diameter and contained 1457 young; 
the shed skins representing at least one moult. 
Dolomedes urinator is uncommon in the north but is 
fairly abundant in the latitude of Washington, D. C. and farther 
south. 
Distribution. ‘*Ithaca, *Jamaica, *Debruce, Sullivan county, 
N. Y.; *Hollis, N. H.; *West Chester, Pa.; Milton, Mass.; New Jer- 
sey; Rockbridge, New Lexington, Ohio; *Olney, Ill.; “Washington, 
~Chain (Bridge Di @) 0 @edar Grovew Mids foals Chunchi site 
Ridge mountains, *Capon Springs, Va.; North Carolina; *Bain- 
bridge, Ga.; *Florida; *Auburn, Ala.; Austin, Texas. 
Dolomedes okefinokensis nov.sp. 
Type: a mature female, no. 9423 and allotype no. 9426, in collection of 
New York State Museum; paratypes in collection of Cornell University 
Type locality: Billy’s island, Okefinokee swamp, Georgia, June 1912, C. R. 
Crosby and S. C. Bishop collectors 
Female (alcohol): length 30mm; legs 4-1-2-3; 63-59.5-58.5-52.5mm; pl. 17, 
DO MoS 
Cephalothorax above reddish brown narrowly margined with black ; 
back of the eyes, an oval area lighter brown inclosed on the sides 
by narrow, yellowish lines and limited posteriorly by a pair of dark 
brown, wedge-shaped patches which lie in front of the dorsal groove; 
radial furrows dark brown, their extremities on sides of thorax 
expanded to inclose an elongate yellowish white spot. Area of the 
eyes dark brown to black and bearing patches of short, white hair. 
Eyes: anterior row slightly recurved; the median, separated by. less 
than the diameter of one of them, are a little larger than the lateral 
and nearer to them than to each other; posterior row strongly re- 
curved; the median, separated by less than the diameter of one ot 
them, are one-third larger than median of anterior row; posterior 
lateral largest, separated from the median by 3 times the radius of 
one of them. Clypeus dark brown clothed with short, white hairs 
on the front and a long fringe on the lower margin; width of clypeus 
about four times the diameter of an anterior median eye; Chelicera 
dark reddish brown clothed with long, yellowish white hairs. Abdo- 
men above, dull brown; a light yellow, median stripe on the anterior 
half is bordered each side by a small crescent of the same color; 
posterior half of abdomen with a series of three or four chevrons, the 
lateral ends of which often inclose small, white spots asin D. tene- 
