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or brilliant orange; the carapace and abdomen almost entirely without iridescent scales, Tibia i. with 
a thick clothing of dark hairs below. Protarsus iv. spined towards the base. 
Hab. Mexico, Tepic (fide Banks1), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith) ; GuaTEMALA 
(Sarg); Costa Rica (Rogers). 
Whether the females before me really belong to the species which Banks has called 
P. funebris I cannot say. It is quite possible, however, that black varieties of 
P. chrysis occur, though the almost complete absence of metallic scales in these 
examples renders it difficult to believe that we have an instance of such variation. 
4. Paraphidippus chrysis. (Tab. XXVI. figg. 1, la-h, 3; 2, 2a-f, 2.) 
Aittus chrysis, Walck. Tabl. p. 25 (1805) *; Ins. Apt. i. p. 454 (1837) 7, and iv. Suppl. p. 422°. 
Phileus chrysis, Peckh. Trans. Wisc. Acad. Sci. vil. p. 30, t. 1. fig. 20 (2), t. 2. figg. 20 (¢), 
t. 3. fig. 20 a@ (2) (1888) *. 
Plexippus orichalceus, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. xiii. p. 118, fig. 1174(.¢)°. 
Phidippus orichalceus, Peckh. Occas. Papers Nat. Hist. Soc. Wisc. i. 1, pp. 7, 18, 33, t. 2. 
figg.8(g¢),8a(), t. 3. fig. 7 (¢) (1896) °. 
Examples in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, ¢ 7-10, 2 8-12 millim. 
3. Dried specimen. Carapace black, with dull green iridescence on the cephalic area, having a narrow band of 
pure white scales on each side, extending from behind the anterior lateral eyes, slightly converging behind 
the cephalic region and extending almost to the posterior margin, attenuate at both extremities. Abdomen 
rich red-brown above, the central area being clothed with green, golden, and pink scales; an almost 
continuous narrow band of white scales encircles the margin, broken, however, at the spinners, forming 
two small spots on each side; the dorsal area has a row of three small spots of white scales on each side, 
the last pair being elongate and transverse. Mandibles black, with a dull green reflection. -Legs black, 
with a dull purple reflection, clothed entirely with black hairs, but with a few white hairs at the base of 
patella i. and on the dorsal area of femora ii., iii., and iv. ; protarsi and tarsi ii. and iii. and tarsi iv. 
yellow ; tibia i. clothed with black hairs beneath, the hairs not dense nor forming a fringe on each side. 
Underside of the body deep dull black-brown, clothed with olive-brown hairs ; ventral area olive-brown. 
Palpi not white at the extreme apex. 
The coloration is somewhat variable ; the legs may be red-brown, the encircling abdominal band may be quite 
continuous and not broken at the apex, while the apical pair of spots may also be transverse, forming two 
pairs of transverse elongate spots. 
9. Dried specimen. Coloration exceedingly variable :— 
1. Carapace with green iridescent scales on the cephalic area extending to the base; sides clothed with 
ochreous-white scales. Abdomen entirely clothed above with emerald-green and coppery scales, or 
entirely green or coppery, or coppery and green with pink reflections; on the anterior third runs a 
marginal band of ochreous-white scales, followed by a large spot and two smaller spots, often 
connected, the posterior one continued over the spinners in the form of a transverse elongation ; the 
dorsal area presents three pairs of ochreous-white (or almost pure white) spots, the posterior pair 
tending to be transverse, each of these spots having a bare patch on either side, appearing to be 
biack in contrast; ventral area brown, with numerous scattered ochre-white scales and a median 
band of the same. Legs, palpi, and mandibles red-brown, clothed with long ochre-yellow hairs ; 
tibize i., ii1., and iv. usually more or less black at their apex. 
2. Precisely similar to the last, but with orange marginal band and spots. 
3. Similar to both the above, but with a broad unbroken orange band extending from the anterior margin 
of the abdomen to the spinners; the dorsal spots also orange. 
Many intermediate varieties of these also occur. 
