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spurs the colour is deep blackish-brown, marked with somewhat quadrate orange spots, or it might be 
described as orange-yellow divided into quadrate spots by dark longitudinal and transverse lines. The 
underside is brown, deepening to black on the spiracular plates. Genital process not conspicuous, but of 
characteristic form. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sarg). 
MODISIMUS, Simon. 
Modisimus inornatus, Cambr. 
The female of this spider is described and figured, anted, p. 149, t. 20. figg. 7, 7 a-e. 
I have since come across what I believe to be the male of the same species from the 
same locality, Teapa. It resembles the female in general appearance, size, colours, and 
markings, and is also closely allied to Modisimus propinquus, Cambr. (anted, p. 223, 
t. 27. figg. 8, 8a-f), but it differs in the form and structure of the palpal organs. 
With respect to the structure of the genital aperture of Modisimus inornatus, I have 
now some reason to doubt whether the pale globular process noted in the description 
of that part (p. 149) is anything more than an outgrowth or accidental accretion. 
GELANOR, Thorell (Galena, C. I. Koch *). 
Gelanor mixtus, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 23 lines ; adult female, length a little over 3 lines. 
In general form and appearance, as well as in colours and markings, this spider very closely resembles the type 
of the genus, G. zonatus, C. L. Koch; but the form and structure of the digital joints of the palpi and the 
palpal organs show a decided difference. 
The cephalothoraw is of a clear orange-yellow-brown colour, palest behind, with a faint transverse, reddish, 
divided marking near the occiput, and a more diffused one of the same hue on the sides (near the fore 
part) of the thorax. , 
The eyes are normal ; the central quadrangle distinctly longer than broad, and its anterior side longer than 
the posterior. 
Legs long, 1, 2, 4, 3, laterally expanded; those of the first two pairs of great length, and, except the femora, 
slender. The characteristic spiny armature on these legs is confined to the metatarsi, on which (of the 
first pair) there are four long spines, on the second three, the middle one of the latter being nearer (but 
not very near) to the posterior than to the anterior one. The colour of the legs is like that of the 
cephalothorax, with some brownish and rusty longitudinal markings on the posterior side of the femora, 
the markings on the first pair being of largest extent; the fore extremity of the tibie is clouded with 
red-brown. 
Palpi very long and slender, of a brownish hue, deepening to dark brown on the radial joint; this joint is 
longer than the humeral, and nearly, if not quite, four times the length of the cubital, rather clavate, and 
has a row of spiny bristles round the inner side of the anterior margin. The digital joint is of moderate 
size and very irregular form: figures only will give a correct idea of its character. The palpal organs are 
not very complex, with several prominent corneous processes and spines. 
Falces long, straight, not very powerful, and with the maaile and labiwm, which are of normal form, rather 
paler than the cephalothorax. 
Sternum pale yellow, elongate heart-shape, drawn out into a point between the coxe of the fourth pair 
of legs. 
Abdomen “short-oval, of a whitish hue, with two large round-oval clear white spots, narrowly margined with 
deep vermilion, tending to black on the fore side, in a transverse line and near together towards the 
* Nomen preeocc. 
