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Show 1 9 0 5 . J SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 57 1 bx. Clypeus not wider than the diameter of the front median eyes. a4. Abdomen underneath wholly brown or black. a5. Black underneath; a dark pattern on buff' ground on upper side. Median and marginal stripes on cephalothorax .............................................. L. obscura L. Koch. b'°. Brown underneath. a6. Dull dingy brown underneath, yellow-brown above; pale median and marginal stripes on cephalothorax................................................................. L . gilberta, sp. nov. be'. Bright chocolate-brown underneath, with large buff spot on upper side at base. Legs brown from base to middle of patella, remainder buff ................................................................................... L. bicolor, sp. nov. ft4. A triangular shield pattern underneath abdomen on creamy-yellow ground. « '. No pale median or marginal stripes on cephalothorax. a8. Shield brown. a9. Shield long and narrow, pale chestnut. Clypeus as broad as front median eyes ........ L. castanea, sp. nov. 69. Shield broad oval, dark brown edged with yellow stripes. Clypeus three-fourths the diameter of front median eyes........................... L . errans, sp. nov. bs. Shield black. a10. Shield reaching only about halfway to spinnerets. Eyes of second row less than half their diameter apart................................................... I . Iceta ? L. K. ft10. Shield reaching nearly to spinnerets. Eyes of second row four-fifths of their diameter apart ........................................................................... L . phyllis, sp. nov. b~‘ . Pale median and marginal stripes on cephalothorax. A dark brown nearly black shield halfway to spinnerets. Clypeus only slightly narrower than front median eyes......................................... L. clara ? L. K. L ycosa ta sm a n ic a , sp. nov. (Text-fig. 80, p. 572.) Cephalothorax dark brown, with narrow paler marginal and side stripes and only faint median stripe. The mandibles are black-brown, with yellow-brown hair on upper and outer portions. Lip, maxilke, sternum, and coxte black-brown, with dark brown hair. The upper side of the abdomen has a dark brown bell-shaped pattern at the base marked out with yellow-brown streaks on chocolate-brown ground. The posterior half is dark brown, with faint traces of paler transverse stripes. There is a rather pale stripe down each side separating the back colour from the wholly black-brown field on the under side. The legs and palpi are chocolate-brown all over, except the under side of the femora which are paler yellowish grey. The c e p h a lo th o r a x is of the broad frontal type being three-fifths of its greatest breadth at the base of the mandibles and one-fourth of the same only in height from the mandibles to the level of the 16 The°front6row of eyes appears slightly procurved the side eyes being as broad as the median eyes but oval. The latter aie half their diameters apart and rather less from the side eyes. The clypeus is wider than the median eyes. The latter are their |
