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and sides dark grayish-black, with a short, median, basal, light 

 stripe, not reaching to the middle of the dorsum, and each side of 

 this two oblique light spots. Abdomen covered with short black 

 hairs. Upper row of eyes nearly straight, lower recurved, so that 

 the S. E. are closer together than the M. E. ; mandibles strongly 

 convex and projecting in front of head ; head high and arched ; 

 median groove short ; from it radiate several grooves to the sides,, 

 which at the bottom are a little darker than the surrounding 

 space; lip more than half length of maxillse, truncate at tip; 

 sternum broad in front, pointed behind between hind coxse; 

 legs moderately long, with many not very long, appressed, bristly, 

 black hairs, and longer black spines; four pairs of spines on under 

 side of tibia I and II ; three pairs on under side of tibia III and 

 IV ; abdomen large and thick ; widest a little beyond the middle ; 

 epigynum as figured; hinder spinnerets not longer than front ones 

 and furnished with tubules only at the tip. 

 One specimen. 



Coelotes medicinalis Hentz. 

 Not common. 



Coelotes fidelis, nov. sp. Plate I, fig. 72. Plate V, fig. 72. 



Total length 9 lO'Omm. 



Length of cephalothorax 4'9mm. breadth 3'2mm. 



Length of abdomen 6" mm. breadth 3*9mm. 



Total length $ 8" mm. 



Very similar to C. lamellosus Keys. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown with radiating lines ; head darker ; 

 mandibles red-brown ; mouth-parts red-brown, sometimes lighter at 

 tips; sternum, legs and palpi yellow; sternum with dark edges; 

 legs with indistinct dark rings on femora ; abdomen nearly white, 

 with many dark spots and lines most numerous on dorsum, not so 

 numerous, however, as in C. longitarsus and C. all'dls ; mandibles 

 not so much projecting as in those species; epigynum and palpal 

 organs as figured. Many specimens, all very constant in shape of 

 the epigynum, which is quite different from C. lamellosv.s. 



Common in woods. 



Coelotes longitarsus Em. Plate lY, fig. 73. 



The $ agrees with Emerton's description and figures. What I 

 take to be 9 is different from his 9 . 



Not uncommon under leaves in autumn and winter. 



