344 _ ARANEIDEA. 
Vulva consisting of a broad-oval concavity, somewhat variable in shape, with a very fine, narrow, chitinous, 
rim-like margin, and in most examples there are two pairs of well-defined spermathecal spots, beneath 
the surface, anteriorly. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
5. Oxyopes bifidus, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. figg. 20, 20a, 3.) 
Type, ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 5 millim. 
Carapace and legs orange-yellow, more or less clothed with white scales, having a thin black line across the 
clypeus on each side and down the mandibles. Abdomen sooty-brown, with a central, dorsal, pale band, 
narrowing to a line above the spinners, its margins formed of white scales. 
The lower branch of the tibial spur of the palpus is bifid, its anterior branch the broader of the two; the upper 
branch is also minutely bicuspidate. 
Hab. Mexico, Acapulco (H. H. Smith). 
6. Oxyopes bifissus, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. figg. 21, 21a, 3; 22, 2.) 
Type 3, gynetype 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, ¢ 4, 2 5 millim. 
3. Carapace, mandibles, and sternum deep mahogany-brown, the abdomen sooty-brown, all clothed with fine 
white hairs. Legs pale yellow. 
For the palpus, see figures and Table of species. 
Q .. Carapace pale yellow, with a distinct, but ill-defined, band of brown hairs on each side of the central line, 
terminating in a darker black spot just beyond the central stria, but not nearly reaching the posterior 
margin. The central pale area has an indistinct median band of brown hairs, slightly dilate anteriorly, 
~ while a narrow band of brown hairs runs backward towards this central band from each central posterior 
eye. The clypeus and mandibles have a narrow black line running down their centre in front from each 
central anterior eye. 
Abdomen with a very broad, pale, central, dorsal band gradually narrowing to the spinners, with the anterior 
lanceolate bar outlined with dusky brown; lateral areas suffused and spotted with brown, with a pair of 
parallel, oblique, narrow, white bars about the middle; ventral area more or less suffused and spotted 
with brown, but a broad, dark, central band is more conspicuous. Legs pale yellow, the femora more or 
less spotted with black. 
For the vulva, see figures and Table of species. 
Hab. Muxico, Teapa (H. H. Smith). 
7. Oxyopes tibialis, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. figg. 23, 23a, 3.) 
Type, ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 5 millim. 
Carapace and legs orange-yellow, a fine black line on each side crossing the clypeus and running down the 
mandibles, and a narrow black line running down the anterior side of the femora of all four pairs of legs. 
Abdomen dull brown, with a pale, narrow, central, dorsal band; pale below, with a broad, central, dark 
band, or, in one example, entirely black. 
The tibia of the palpus has a long conspicuous process beneath it, strongly curved and concavo-spatulate at 
the apex. 
Hab. Guatemaa (Sarg). 
8. Oxyopes calcarifer, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII, fig. 24, ¢.) 
Type, d, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 4 millim. 
Carapace, palpi, mandibles, and sternum brown, more or less clothed with grey hairs and scales, 
femora with a double row of indistinct dusky speckles in front of each. Abdomen olive- 
with white iridescent scales. 
Legs yellow ; 
green, clothed 
