OXYOPES. 34 
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For the palpus, see the Table of the species. 
2. Pale orange-yellow, with four bands of fine brown scales down the carapace, alternating with bands of 
white scales. A narrow black line runs from each central anterior eye, across the clypeus, down the 
mandible for about two-thirds of its length. A fine black line runs down the front of femora i. and_ii., 
and also, but less evidently, of iii. and iv. 
Abdomen with a dark brown, lanceolate, anterior, central, dorsal bar; the lateral area more or less entirely 
covered with dark brown slashes, sometimes only evident in the apical half; the ventral area has a deep 
black, central, longitudinal band. 
Vulva very characteristic, consisting of a short, stout, conical spur, broad and convex at the base, with a dark 
spot on each side, its apex directed forward, abruptly depressed towards the abdomen, and again abruptly 
curved in under, backward, where the apex is flattened out into a spatuliform lamina. The exact form 
of the process, however, is somewhat variable. 
Hab. Mexico, Tierra Colorada, Vera Cruz, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guaremata (Sarg). 
—Soutn America, Taguara!; ANTILLES, St. Vincent 2. 
The type and gynetype of O. gracilis, Keys., are before me, also the examples from 
St. Vincent identified by Simon as 0. salticus, Hentz. These are identical; but since we 
cannot say what O. salticus, Hentz, may really be, I have adopted Keyserling’s name, 
until some arachnologist can settle the point. 
2. Oxyopes cornutus, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 16, ¢.) 
Type, od, in coll, Godman & Salvin. Total length 5 millim. 
Colour variable. Carapace, legs, mandibles, and sternum orange-yellow. The carapace has traces of bands of 
brown scales, as in O. gracilis; a thin black line crosses the clypeus and runs down the mandible, in one 
example, uniting with the opposite one, and forming a broad dark band in the centre of each; otherwise, 
the rest of the carapace is clothed with white scales. 
Legs orange-yellow, with a fine dark line (often obliterate) in front of the femora. Abdomen olive-green, with 
a pale, central, dorsal band narrowing to the spinners, often indistinct; ventral area with a broad, dark, 
central band. 
Tibia of palpus convex beneath, not concave as in O. gracilis; patella without any fringe of stiff hairs; the 
bulb is without hooked spines at the apex, but has two elongate processes, the outer one the longest, 
the inner one, lying at about the centre of the bulb, being very short. Tarsus with a very short, incon- 
spicuous, conical development at the base on the outer side. 
Hab. Mexico, Tierra Colorada (H. H. Smith). 
3. Oxyopes tricuspidatus, sp.n. (Tab XXXII. figg. 17, 17a, 2, 3.) 
Type, ¢, in coll, Godman & Salvin. Total length 6 millim. 
Carapace orange-yellow, with a broad indistinct band of brown scales running across the clypeus from each 
anterior central eye and down the mandibles. Legs yellow, femora darker, especially beneath. Abdomen 
pale. yellow, entirely clothed with white hairs dorsally, with a lateral and a central band beneath of 
brown or black scales. Sternum yellow. 
The tibial spur of the palpus is “ tricuspidate,” the central cusp being the shortest, and sharp. The bulb 
presents a broad, central, flat process, terminating behind in a short hook. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
4. Oxyopes globosus, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. figg, 18, 18 a-c, ¢; 19,194, 9.) 
‘Type 3, gynetype 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, ¢ 4, 9 4:5 millim. 
The whole spider is of a pale orange-colour, clothed with white hairs and scales, and the ventral area of the 
abdomen has an indistinct central band of dusky hairs. 
The tarsus of the male palpus is very short and globular (for details, see figures). 
