Without a picture or a better description, it will be very difficult to name this spider. In what kind of habitat did you find it....indoors, hunting outdoors, in a web, etc.?

thanks for responding.. the spider was in my living room in the middle of a bunch of boxes. we had just moved down from Utah, so it's possible the spider may have been transported down in the boxes (which were in storage for six months). I failed to mention that the legs had black stripes on them. Some people think it might have been a wolf spider, but it seems to me that the totally black underbelly region is unique enough to distinguish it apart from a wolf.