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of the protarsi. Basal half of the femur of the palpus of female brown, the rest yellow. (Vulva not fully 
developed.) 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith). 
Very similar to Af. melanura, but without the pale lateral abdominal bar and not 
suffused below with black. The central cephalic pale blotch also begins behind the 
anterior eyes. 
5. Marpissa melanura, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fige. 7, 7 a-c, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 8 millim. 
Carapace almost black, with white scattered hairs, a white marginal band and a central white blotch behind 
the central stria abruptly attenuate and extending to the posterior margin. Abdomen white, with a pair 
of irregular black bands on each side of the dorsal area, leaving a broad central white band and a narrow 
lateral pale band, which is bounded on the sides below by another dark lateral band, the pale one being 
broken by dark spots and blotches; lower lateral area pale ; ventral area black. Legs and palpi yellow, 
legs i, and ii. and the palpi spotted and blotched with brown; femur i. brown on both sides. 
Vulva varying individually; consisting of a large rounded triangular area, narrower behind, slightly notched 
in the centre of the posterior margin, with a central longitudinal depression broader in front, attenuate 
behind, having a pair of widely separate crescentie marks, one and half times the length of one of them 
apart, anteriorly on each side of the central depression. 
Hab. GuatEMALA, Guatemala city (Stol/). 
PHANIAS. 
Type Phanias flavostriatus, sp.n. Mexico. 
The type-species of this genus differs from that of Marpissa in possessing only 
three pairs of spines beneath tibia i. and from the Central-American members of the 
same genus by the same character, save that in the latter there are four spines on the 
inner side only. From Mefacyrba it may be known by the latter having usually only 
one or two spines beneath tibia i., and from Paramarpissa by the almost parallel-sided 
carapace. ‘The sternum, moreover, is not dilated behind as in the true Marpissa. 
1. Phanias flavostriatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. figg. 8, 8a, 4, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 8 millim. 
Carapace red-brown, clothed with white hairs; cephalic area with white (yellow in alcohol) cretaceous cells 
below the epidermis. Clypeus clothed with white hairs ; a group of stiff curved bristles is situated below 
the small eyes on each side. Abdomen red-brown above, speckled and streaked with yellow; with five 
transverse, variously formed, yellow bars, the first on the anterior margin forming two small central spots, 
the second being divided in the middle, the third united in the centre to form a square spot, the fourth 
united and forming a short longitudinal bar, the fifth lying just above the spinners; lateral and ventral 
areas dusky white, thinly speckled with brown, the ventral area with a broad central brown longitudinal 
band extending from the genital rima to the spinners. Leg i. red-brown, the cox and tarsi paler yellow, 
clothed with short white hairs. Legs ii, iii., iv. clear yellow, with a single brown spot on each side of 
the femora at the apex. 
Patella without spines; tibie i. and ii. with 2—2—2 spines beneath (no lateral spine); iii. and iv. with a 
single spine beneath, and with two apical spines. Protarsi i, and ii. with 2—2 spines beneath ; ili. and iv. 
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