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darker toward the tip. Abdomen reddish-brown with many faint 

 white spots ; sides and venter reddish-brown ; spinnerets light yellow. 

 Cephalothorax much higher in middle than in front; widest at 

 middle ; clypeus vertical ; eyes in two curved rows ; the eyes of the 

 upper row at about equal distances, and about equal in size ; the 

 M. E. of the lower row, about as close to each other as to the much 

 larger S. E.; the four M. E. make a quadrangle much wider than 

 high ; the lower M. E. smaller and slightly closer to each other than 

 the upper M. E.; abdomen rounded ; two rows of spines on tibise 

 and metatarsi I and II, five to seven spines in each row ; epigynum 

 consists of a cavity wider than long, somewhat triangular in outline, 

 divided by a low septum. 



Total length $ 5- mm. 



Length of cephalothorax 2'4mm. breadth 2'4mni. 



Length of sternum I'lmm. breadth 1* mm. 



Length of femur I 3*4mm. tibia I 3' mm. 



Length of femur IV 21 mm. tibia IV l'6mm. 



Cephalothorax and appendages as in the 9 ; abdomen yellowish- 

 brown, venter lighter ; three pairs of elongate reddish-brown spots 

 on caudal part of dorsum ; a white band on the cephalic edge of 

 each spot ; eyes as in the $ ; abdomen longer in proportion to size 

 than in 9 . 



Net uncommon in meadows. Sept.; taken in copulation, 



Xysticus formosus, nov. sp. Plate III, fig. 9. „ 



Total length $ B-4mm. 



Length of cephalothorax 2'8mm. breadtli 2'8mm, 



Length of sternum l"4mm. breadth 1' mm. 



Length of femur I 3" mm. tibia I 2" ram. 



Length of femur IV 2* mm. tibia IV l"3mm. 



Distance l)etween epigynum and spinnerets 2' mm. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, darkest on head, with a median 

 light line ; sides reddish-brown terminated behind by a darker 

 brown spot ; margin nearly white ; clypeus yellow-brown ; base of 

 hills of S. E. whitish ; mandibles and palpi reddish-brown ; legs 

 darker red-brown, base of femora lighter, tarsus darkest ; sternum 

 yellowish, darker on sides ; venter whitish, sides obliquely striped 

 with brown; spinnerets reddish, dorsum white, with four pair of 

 large triangular spots brown, somewhat connected with each other 

 leaving a median serrated white stripe ; basal spots largest ; quad- 

 rangle of M. E. broader than high ; four M. E. equally large ; 

 upper S. E. larger than uj^per M. E. and a little smaller than lower 



