Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . e-spider. Figure 206. Color dull grajdsh brown or yellowish brown, with scattered black-ish hairs; on the legs black specks at the base of hairs. Length ofbody sometimes 22-24™ ; expanse of legs may be 130°, or inches. Takes its prey by chasing or jumping upon it, like theWolf-spiders. In spite of its evil Latin name it is considered harm-less by the natives, and is also useful in killing cockroaches andother vermin. A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 839 Lycosa Atlantica Marx ; Common Wolf-spider. Figures 220, 221. The c

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Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . e-spider. Figure 206. Color dull grajdsh brown or yellowish brown, with scattered black-ish hairs; on the legs black specks at the base of hairs. Length ofbody sometimes 22-24™ ; expanse of legs may be 130°, or inches. Takes its prey by chasing or jumping upon it, like theWolf-spiders. In spite of its evil Latin name it is considered harm-less by the natives, and is also useful in killing cockroaches andother vermin. A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 839 Lycosa Atlantica Marx ; Common Wolf-spider. Figures 220, 221. The color of this species is variable. In some of our specimenspreserved in formalin the cephalothorax is dusky or tawny brown,with a narrow median stripe of lighter brownish yellow, wider ante-riorly, and a curved lateral stripe of the same color on each side andof about the same width ; extreme margin edged with a narrowblack line; abdomen brownish black thickly covered with shortblack hairs, and with a faint median stripe of pale brown anteiiorly, 220 221.

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