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The legs and palpi are similar to the cephalothorax in colour, and spotted and marked with blackish-brown 
spots and small strie. 
The falces are a little deeper in colour than the legs, and are marked along the front on the basal half with a 
dark slightly reddish-brown stripe. 
The maville, labiwm, and sternum are pale yellow, without any markings. 
The abdomen is of a short-oval form; its colour is yellow, spotted and marked with red-brown. On the 
anterior half of the upperside is a longitudinal central clear yellow band pointed behind, and margined 
with deep red-brown broken spots and markings; following this, towards the spinners, is a series of 
almost confluent yellowish transverse angular bars or chevrons, and from the spinners upwards to about 
halfway towards the point of the central yellow band is a deep red-brown irregular stripe. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
MISUMENA, Simon. 
Misumena particeps, sp. n. 
‘Adult female, length 4 lines. 
Cephalothorax yellow, with a broad longitudinal dark red-brown stripe, somewhat indented on its margins, on 
each side. The fore part of the broad central band between the stripes is dusky, and behind this just in 
front of the thoracic indentation is a V-shaped white marking. The cephalothorax is furnished with 
prominent spine-like bristles issuing from minute tubercles. The height of the clypeus is slightly less 
than half that of the facial space. 
The eyes are very small, the fore laterals slightly the largest; the four centrals form a square. The eyes of 
the anterior row are equidistant from each other. The hind centrals are nearer together than each is to 
the hind lateral eye on its side. The lateral eyes are seated on strongish yellowish-white tubercles. 
The legs are moderately long and strong, 2, 1, 4, 3, yellow, a small portion of the base of the tibia and a 
larger portion at the extremity dark reddish-yellow. Beneath the tibix of the first and second pairs are 
five pairs of spines, and beneath the metatarsi are six pairs, in two longitudinal rows. 
The falces are moderate in length and strength, straight, subconical, of a yellowish-white colour, darker at the 
base in front. 
The maxille, labiwm, and sternum are yellow. 
The abdomen is somewhat pentagonal, much the broadest behind, of a whitish hue, thinly clothed with bristly 
hairs issuing from very minute tubercles. Along the middle of the upperside it is suffused with blackish- 
brown, having a central longitudinal white line, and some pale spots and points indicate the normal trans- 
verse angular bars or chevrons, diminishing in size towards the spinners. On the underside is a long 
sharp-pointed black marking running forwards from the spinners for about half its length, and on each 
side just above the spinners are several parallel dark lines near together, followed forwards by a long ill- 
defined curved blackish stripe. The genital aperture is very distinct and of characteristic form. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, Coban (Sarq). 
STROPHIUS, Keyserling. 
Strophius signatus, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 13 lines. 
Cephalothorax blackish-chestnut-brown, covered with small shining black tubercles. The height of the clypeus, 
which projects much forwards, is rather less than half that of the facial space. 
The eyes are in two transverse rows, occupying the whole width of the caput; the anterior row is straight, the 
posterior row slightly curved, the convexity of the curve directed forwards. The four central eyes form a 
large quadrangular figure broader than long ; and each fore central eye is much nearer to the fore lateral 
eye on its side than each is to the other, being separated from it by little, if anything, more than a diameter’s 
interval. The lateral eyes are seated on strongish tubercles, and are about equal in size, but larger than 
the rest, the fore centrals being rather the smallest. 
