270 ARANEIDEA. 
24, Metaphidippus pallidatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 17, 174, 2.) 
Type, 9, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 4°5 millim. 
Colour entirely pale yellow; carapace rather darker, red-brown, clothed with white hairs; abdomen also 
clothed with white hairs, having an anterior, central, dorsal, cruciform, transparent mark. General 
structure as in other species of the group. Vulva consisting of a circular area, its posterior margin only 
very slightly emarginate, with a large circular horseshoe-shaped depression or concavity in front, open 
behind, bounded by two deep black outlines (see Plate). 
Hab. Guatemaa (Sarg). 
25. Metaphidippus expallidatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 18, 184, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll, Godman & Salvin. Total length 3°5 millim. 
Carapace red-brown, clothed with white hairs, with a pair of indistinct dusky spots in the centre of the cephalic 
area. Legs yellow; femur, patella, and tibia of i. and ii. with a dusky annulus at the apex. Abdomen 
pale yellow, with a brown variegated pattern on the dorsal area (see Plate). Ventral area with a broad 
sooty-black central band. General structure as in other species of the group. Vulva consisting of a 
broad triangular-oval area, slightly emarginate behind, not notched, with, anteriorly, two curved black 
lines forming the boundaries of a concavity, the two orifices at the posterior end of the lines being wide 
apart, four diameters of an orifice. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
26. Metaphidippus bicavatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 19, 19 a-d, ¢.) 
Type, 2,in coll. Godman & Salvin, Total length 7 millim. 
Carapace deep red-brown, clothed with iridescent scales, with a central posterior band and a posterior marginal 
band of white hairs. Abdomen pale yellow, clothed with iridescent scales, having an anterior 
marginal white band, which extends along each side, dilate at the end, forming a spot about the middle 
of the lateral area, followed by a larger and a smaller white spot ; on each side of the dorsal area lies a 
broad black band, broken up by three white spots into four black oblong patches; ventral area pale. 
Legs orange, i. and ii. dark brown, slightly darkened at the apex of each segment; in iii. and iv. these 
points are much darker by contrast with the paler legs. Vulva consisting of a large broad-oval area, 
deeply notched behind, in the middle of the posterior margin, with a pair of large, adjacent, shallow, oval 
cavities lying longitudinally with a narrow septum between, and a pair of dark spots between them and 
the posterior margin. Tibia i. with 2—2—2 spines beneath, those on the inner side being closer together 
and situated in the apical half, those on the outer side more widely separate. Protarsus iv. with three 
subapical spines at its apex beneath, besides a lateral one on each side at the apex and a lateral spine 
about the middle of the outer side. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
27. Metaphidippus cupreus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. tigg. 20, 20a, ¢.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 7 millim. 
Carapace red-brown, clothed with coppery-pink iridescent scales. Abdomen red-brown, above entirely clothed 
with coppery-pink iridescent scales, having a narrow white marginal band entirely encircling it; sides 
brown-mottled; ventral area brown, bounded on each side by a narrow white dotted line (or line of 
dots). Vulva very distinct in form, consisting of an oval area, its posterior margin deeply notched, having 
a pair of deep cavities anteriorly. Legs i. brown, ii., ili., and iv. white; apex of femora, the patella, the 
sides of the tibiz, and almost the whole of the protarsus, brown. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
