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20. Metaphidippus digitatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 12, 12 a-c, 3.) 
Type, ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 4 millim. 
Carapace red-brown, with two spots of white hairs behind the anterior eyes, a broad median lateral white band 
extending from beneath the anterior lateral eyes almost to the posterior margin, and a very narrow 
marginal line of white hairs. Abdomen dorsally red-brown, with iridescent scales and an unbroken 
marginal white band, with three pairs of white spots in the basal half, and two oblique white spots on 
each side at the apex; ventral area brown, broadly margined with pale yellow or dull white. 
Legs i. yellow-brown, femur and apices of the other segments dark brown; ii., ili., and iv. yellow, annulated 
(like i.) with brown. Carapace scarcely dilate behind laterally ; tibia i. spined on the inner side to the 
middle, and on the outer side to a little beyond this. Mandibles stout, not developed, with a larger 
tooth, dilate at its apex, on the lower margin, opposed by a small tooth on the upper. Bulb of palpus 
extending basally over the tibia; its apical spine black, very broad, obliquely truncate at the apex, with a 
small central cusp and a longer apical point directed forward, and slightly curving inward; tibial spur 
very short, sharp, and curving downward. Sternum rather over twice its breadth, not abruptly narrowed 
behind. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatemata (Sarg). 
21. Metaphidippus bicuspidatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 13, 134, 6, 3.) 
Type, ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 3 millim. 
Colour and general structure similar to that of MZ. diyitatus. Bulb of palpus extended basally over the tibia, 
deeply indentate at the apex, where the apical lobe ig inserted; apical spine very broad, somewhat 
geniculate, its apex bifid (or bicuspidate) and directed forward; tibial spur deeply bicuspidate, forming 
two branches, the lower broader and straight, the upper more slender and curving downward. Mandibles 
as in M. digitatus. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sarg). 
22. Metaphidippus centralis. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 14, 14a, 3; 15, 2.) 
Dendryphantes centralis, Peckh. Occas. Papers Nat. Hist. Soc. Wisc. iii. 1, p. 49, t. 4. figg.5,5a(¢), 
5b, e (fg) (April 1896) *. 
Type d, gynetype 2, in coll. Peckham. Total length, g 3:5, 2 5 millim. 
Hab, Panama!. 
Our figures are taken from Peckham’s work. 
23. Metaphidippus nigropictus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 16, 16 a, 6, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 6 millim. 
Carapace dark red-brown, with iridescent green scales; cephalic area almost black, more or less clothed with 
grey hairs. Abdomen pale yellow, clothed with white hairs and with green iridescent. scales, 
with a broad black longitudinal band on each side, not reaching either the anterior margin or the 
spinners; ventral area and sides pale yellow. Legs dark yellow-brown, i. and il. darker. General 
structure as in other species of the group. Vulva consisting of a large, transverse-oval, shallow cavity 
not reaching the posterior margin, which is slightly emarginate in the centre; in the cavity is situated 
an orifice on each side of the middle, connected with a semicircular dark line. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith). 
