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Show 1 9 0 5 .] SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 581 011 both upper and under sides. Palpi: femur dark brown, other joints buff. The cephalothorax is square in front, the greatest breadth two-thirds its length, covered with thickly matted coarse hair. The front row of eyes is procurved, median pair larger than laterals. Clypeus rather narrower than front median, which are only half that distance from the second row eyes. The two middle row eyes are more than 2| times the diameter of the front median and § of their diameter apart. The eyes of the third row are 3 times their diameter apart, and half that distance from the eyes of the second row. There are three large teeth on the under side of the falx-sheath, one large between two smaller on upper side of same. Text-fig. 85. Lycosa bicolor. a, eyes from front; b, epigyne. The lip is slightly broader than long and less than one-half the length of the maxillae. The oval sternum is three-fourths as broad as long. There are no spines above on tibiae i. and ii. of female. One short one in male. On tibiae iii. and iv. above there are two in both male and female. . In the female the outline of the epigyne is oblong, rounded at the corners, one and a half times wider than long. The median vido-e is narrowest in the middle, widening out at each end. The palps of the male specimen wanted a moult of development. |
