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Ceplialothorax red, with white pubescence and loug scattered 

 black hairs ; eyes on a black band ; clypeus with white hairs ; falces 

 reddish ; palpi light, with white hairs ; legs yellowish, with reddish 

 at ends of joints, front legs darker ; sternum red-brown. Abdomen 

 whitish-yellow, with white pubescence and long black hairs ; four 

 red-brown spots each side on dorsum, more or less connected across 

 the middle by chevrons, the basal ones connected by a curved line ; a 

 spot above apex red-brown ; spinnerets and median stripe on venter 

 red-brown ; sides and rest of venter light ; epigynum dark ; sides with 

 a faint trace of reddish oblique bands. Sternum broad, truncate in 

 front ; anterior coxse separated by more than width of labium ; first 

 legs much the stoutest; first and second pairs of legs as in D.flavi- 

 pedes. 



Not uncommon. 



Dendryphantes ornatus, nov. sp. Plate IV, fig. 29; Plate V, fig. 29. 



Total length $ 4'9mm. 



Length of cephalothorax l*8mm. breadth l'3mm. 



Length of abdomen 3"lmm. breadth 2* mm. 

 Leg formula 4-1-3-2. 



Cephalothorax reddish ; eyes on black band ; with short white 

 pubescence and long scattered white and black hairs ; clypeus with 

 white hairs; mandibles reddish ; sternum dark red-brown ; legs and 

 palpi yellowish, the femora of first pair more red-brown ; legs dis- 

 tinctly ringed with red-brown, and with white pubescence and 

 longer black hairs. Abdomen whitish-yellow, with short whitish 

 pubescence and long Avhite and a few black hairs ; dorsum with 

 red-brown bands more or less connected with an irregular central 

 stripe; basal band horseshoe-shaped; three others behind it more 

 straight ; upper side white ; lower side with a broad red-brown 

 stripe ; venter with a broad median red-brown stripe, constricted 

 just in front of red-brown spinnerets, and then widened to surround 

 them. First legs stoutest, but not so large as in some species ; 

 anterior coxse separated by more than width of labium ; sternum 

 oblong ; abdomen swollen with eggs. 



One specimen. 



Dendryphantes exiguus, nov. sp. Plate V, fig. 30. 



Total length 9 4"4mm. 



Length of cephalothorax I'Smm. breadth l*3mm. 



Length of abdomen 2*7mm. breadth l"7mm. 

 Leg formula 4-1-3-2. 



