. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders -- United States. 84 THE COMMON SPIDERS of the cephalothorax is narrower. The middle stripe of the abdomen is narrower and brighter at the front end. The femora are distinctly marked with four rings, and the other joints less plainly. In the male the ends of the legs are pale, without rings, and the rings of the femora are broken into spots except on the front legs, where the femora are black. The palpi (fig. 206) have the femora black and the patella white. The tibia is dark, and the tarsus is dark at the base and white toward the tip. Pirata
. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders -- United States. 84 THE COMMON SPIDERS of the cephalothorax is narrower. The middle stripe of the abdomen is narrower and brighter at the front end. The femora are distinctly marked with four rings, and the other joints less plainly. In the male the ends of the legs are pale, without rings, and the rings of the femora are broken into spots except on the front legs, where the femora are black. The palpi (fig. 206) have the femora black and the patella white. The tibia is dark, and the tarsus is dark at the base and white toward the tip. Pirata piraticus. — A small and active spider living in short grass in summer and under leaves in winter. The colors and shape of the body are much like Lycosa pratensis (fig. 168), but the legs are proportionally larger and longer, and the colors brighter. The length is about a quarter of an inch. The front and second rows of eyes are of the same length, those of the \ second row large and their diameter apart (fig. 209). The eyes\ of the upper row are nearly as large as those of the and twice as far apart. The color is pale yellow, with gray or black markings. The cephalothorax has a narrow light line in the middle and one on each side (fig. 208). In the middle of the front of the abdomen is a light stripe with dark edges, which tapers into a line or row of spots behind the middle. At the sides of this are light stripes that unite behind, and outside of these are dark markings becoming smaller behind. The legs have conspicuous dark spines, especially the hinder pair, and are faintly marked with rings. Figs. 208, 209 Pirata pirati- cus.— 208, female en- larged three times. 209, front of head or sometimes are without markings. Dolomedes and Ocyale differ in many respects from the other Lycosidae. They are more flattened, have the head lower, and the eyes all more nearly of the same size. The front row. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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