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Show 1905.] SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 579 also is not so wide as the front median eyes, instead of equal. It has 110 spines 011 tibia i. or ii. above, and lip only as broad as long instead of broader. One female (without locality) sent from Adelaide, S.A. L ycosa e r r a n s , sp. nov. (Text-fig. 84.) The cephalothorax is red-brown, with yellow-brown downlying hair; mandibles black-brown, with rather brighter coloured hair. Lip, maxillae, sternum, and coxae dark chocolate-brown. The abdomen above dark brown, rather thick coarse hair, with four pale spots at the base and transverse stripes of bright pale buff from middle to posterior end; on the underside a broad dark brown field reaching from base nearly to the spinnerets ; the sides light yellow-brown. Text-fig. 84. a, eyes from front; b, epigyne. The legs are yellowish-brown, the patella? and tibiae darkest, and the underside of the femora almost silver-grey. The cephalothorax is broad, being four-fifths its length in tlie broadest part and two-fifths in front, and not so long as patella cum tibia iv. |