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Sternum of usual general shape; caudad abruptly narrowed into a 

 narrow tongue projecting between coxae. 



Legs spined as Usual; spines of tibiae II not specially modified. 



Scape of epigynum long and a little clavate, projecting caudad, 

 (Plate 19, fig. 5). 



Female. Length, 5.1 mm. Length of cephalothorax, 2.5 mm.; 

 width, 2 mm. 



Locality.— Sorontoy, 7,000 feet, September. (Type, M. C. Z. 234). 



Aranea SANTA, sp. nov, 

 Piatt 19, fig. 10. 



Carapace with pars cephalica testaceous, the pars thoracica abruptly 

 darker, dusky. Sternum testaceous, somewhat dusky, with a clear 

 white T-shaped mark of which the cross-piece is at the anterior end. 

 Labium and endites dusky testaceous. Legs light brown or testa- 

 ceous, the joints vaguely darker at distal ends but not distinctly 

 annulate. Abdomen above whitish, covered with a close network 

 of fine dark lines and on each side with a series of dark oblique areas; 

 back of middle a median longitudinal black line and a little each side 

 of and parallel with this a broader dark stripe embracing about five 

 small triangular black spots, these two more lateral stripes converging 

 moderately caudad to spinnerets, a small white spot each side of and 

 a little in front of the spinnerets. Anterior face of abdomen brown 

 or dusky brown. 



Abdomen suborbicular or but slightly extended at ends, not at all 

 angulate or tuberculate. 



Posterior row of eyes conspicuously recur\'ed as usual ; median eyes 

 only about six sevenths their diameter apart, twice their diameter 

 from the laterals. Lateral eyes contiguous, subequal. Anterior row 

 of eyes distinctly recurved; median eyes equal to the posterior 

 medians, a little more than their diameter apart, and the same dis- 



