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2. Scotopheus pictus, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 14,2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. 
Q. Total length 8-5 millim. 
Carapace, sternum, and mouth-parts dark mahogany-brown, legs paler. Abdomen sooty-black, with a pale, broad, 
central band, more or less broken up into transverse bars towards the spinners. Spinners pale yellow. 
Posterior row of eyes almost straight, eyes nearly equal, almost equidistant, centrals slightly nearer, one and 
a half diameters apart, two diameters from laterals; anterior row slightly procurved, centrals larger than 
laterals, almost contiguous with each other and with the laterals ; posterior row wider than the anterior. 
Tarsi and protarsi i. and ii. with a thick black scopula beneath; protarsi with a pair of spines at the base. 
Tibi i. and ii. with a single row of three spines beneath. 
The vulva consists of a small triangular concavity, having a central chitinous tongue. (See Tab. IV. fig. 14.) 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
ECHEMUS. 
Echemus, E. Simon, Arachn. Fr. iv. p. 99 (1878). 
Type EF. ambiguus, E. Sim. Basses-Alpes. 
For generic characters, see table of genera. 
1. Echemus pedestris. 
Echemus pedestris,O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran.i. p. 273, t.32. figg. 13,18 a-d(@)'. 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith?). 
2. Echemus ochraceus, sp. n. (Tab. IV. figg. 11, 1la, 4,¢.) 
Type, 3d, in coll. Godman & Salvin. 
Total length 6 millim. 
Carapace, legs, sternum, and mouth-parts pale orange-yellow. Abdomen paler, with brown hairs on the 
dorsal surface. Ventral area pale, with a narrow central band of brown hairs. 
Tibie i. and ii. with two spines in a row on the anterior margin beneath ; protarsus i. with one spine, 
il, with a pair of spines at the base beneath. 
Tibia of palpus with a longer sharp spur on the outer side directed forwards, and another smaller cusp 
above, inclined towards the inner side. Bulb with a long stout spine on the inner side, its apex black, 
sharp, passing the distal margin of the bulb, and curving slightly outwards. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
A single adult male. 
DRASSODES. 
Drassodes, Westring, Aranewe Suecice, p. 860 (1862). 
Type D. lapidosus (Walck.). 
Two species only of this genus are represented in the Central-American collections 
before me, though others have been described by Mr. N. Banks from Mexico. The 
name Drassus, so long associated with the forms now referred to Drassodes, has become 
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