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hair which stands out upon the surface like the bristles on a 

 brush, a peculiar feature, the signifiance of which is at present 

 wholly problematical. Saltatri.v (the male of which Hentz 

 figures as (yenustula) is thus alone in the genus in lacking this 

 brush-like structure. In the new species the femur, patella 

 and metatarsi, as well as 'the tibia, have the tegument black. 

 The following key may facilitate the separation of the four 

 species. 



MALES. 



1. First tibia clothed densely with black hair standing out in brush-like 



form 2. 



First tibiae not so clothed saltatrix Hentz 



2. Legs all distinctly annulate ; sternum dark ocreata Hentz. 



Legs not all annulate ; sternum yellow 3. 



3. Tegument of femur, patella and metatarsi as well as tibia, of anterior 



legs, black ; metatarsus of fourth legs distinctly annulate with 



dark celerior sp. nov. 



Tegument of femora, patella and metatarsus of first legs not so col- 

 ored ; metatarsus of fourth legs not distinctly annulate with 

 dark bilineata Emerton. 



FEMALES. 



1. Sternum yellow, either with or without two rows of dark spots conver- 



ging caudad 2. 



Sternum dark, reddish brown to black 3. 



2. Cephalothorax more than 4 mm. long ; metatarsi of fourth legs dis- 



tinctly annulate with black celerior sp. nov. 



Cephalothorax less than 4 mm. long ; metatarsi of fourth legs not an- 

 nulate, all legs without annulations .... bilineata Emerton. 



3. Guide of epigynum much wider immediately in front of transverse 



arms than between anterior and posterior divisions of these 

 arms ; anterior portion of septum not sinuous ocreata Hentz. 

 Portion of guide or septum between anterior and posterior divisions 

 of transverse arms much wider than immediately in front of 

 arms ; septum sinuous or bent near anterior end. 



saltatrix Hentz. 

 Schizocosa celerior sp. nov 



Female. Cephalothorax with a rather narrow blackish brown stripe 

 in the tegument each side and meeting its fellow across the face ; eyes 

 surrounded with black; the lateral dark lines leave between them a 

 median longitudinal band of yellow which extends cephalad as a nar- 

 row tongue between eyes of second and third rows behind the latter 

 abruptly expanding to the width of the row, indented on each side a 



