A REVISION OF THE PISAURIDAE OF THE UNITED STATES 57 
Dolomedes striatus Giebel 
Zeit. Ges. Natur., 1860, 33:252 
Type: Dolomedes striatus Giebel; type specimen not known to 
ae locality: Illinois 
Female (alcohol): length 13mm; legs, 4-1-2-3, 25-22.5-21.5-21mm; pl. 33, 
mee, 168 Fol, Syst, ther, 
Cephalothorax above reddish brown, clothed with short, brown 
hair; back of the eyes an oval area, lighter, extending to the dorsal 
groove; sometimes a median, light line from posterior median eyes 
to rear margin of thorax through dorsal groove; on each side of 
cephalothorax a dusky yellow or white line extending from anterior 
lateral margin of clypeus to posterior margin of thorax; lateral, light 
lines parallel with the dorsal groove, not following margins of the 
cephalothorax. Eyes each surrounded by a black ring; eyes of 
anterior row subequal in size and forming a straight line; median 
separated by slightly less than the diameter of one of them, a little 
closer to the lateral; posterior eyes in a strongly recurved line; 
subequal in size; the median, separated by the diameter of one of 
them, are almost twice the size of the anterior median; posterior 
lateral separated from median of same row, by twice the diameter 
of one of the latter. Clypeus dark reddish brown with a median, 
vertical, light mark. Chelicera reddish brown clothed with long, 
yellow hairs and indistinctly marked with a net work of gray lines. 
Abdomen above dark brown punctuated with minute, light brown 
spots and clothed with short, dark brown pubescence; a median, 
basal mark dusky yellow, short in some, in others, lanceolate; on 
each side, a dull yellow stripe in the integument clothed with light 
yellow hair is continuous with the lines of the cephalothorax ; sides 
of abdomen with dull yellow pubescence; venter with several alter- 
nating stripes of dull yellow and brown from epigastric furrow to 
spinnerets. Femora of the legs above with three !ongitudinal stripes 
of gray on the reddish brown ground; femora below more or less 
mottled; patellae and tibiae less distinctly striped, reddish or orange- 
brown; metatarsi and tarsi clear reddish brown, not striped; coxae 
mottled with dark brown. Sternum dark brown to black. Labium 
dark reddish brown, endites somewhat lighter. Epigynum: anterior 
third of median lobe excavated, behind convex; lateral lobes strongly 
chitinized along inner edges, converging behind to a point on the 
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The male has not been described. 
