Superfamily Argiopoidea 



end of the tibia of the first leg; and in the female there is no 

 white basal band on the abdomen. It occurs throughout the 

 greater part of the United States. 



Icius hartii (1. hart'i-i). — This species is unusually low and 

 flat. In the male there are no tufts over the anterior eyes; and 

 the femur, patella, and tibia of the first legs are enlarged. In 

 both sexes the cephalothorax is brown with a covering of gray 

 hairs and the abdomen is dark gray with a white border broken 

 into bars; sometimes the abdomen has a metallic lustre. It occurs 

 from Massachusetts to Nebraska. 



Genus TALAVERA (Tal-a-ve'ra) 



This genus includes very small spiders, with the cephalothorax 

 moderately high and with the sides parallel and vertical. The 

 eye-region occupies nearly half of the length of the cephalothorax, 

 is about one fourth wider than long, and is wider in front than 

 behind. The second row of eyes is about midway between the 

 others. The front coxae are separated by a little more than the 

 width of the labium. 



A single known species occurs in our fauna. 



Talavera minuta (T. mi-nu'ta). — This is a small species, the 

 male measuring only one twelfth inch in length; the female, 

 one tenth. 'The cephalothorax is reddish brown, with the eye- 

 region blackish. The abdomen, in the male, is black, in the female 

 gray with indistinct pale chevrons. The legs are white banded 

 with black, except the femur of the first in the female, which is 

 more of less darkened, and the femur and tibia of the first in the 

 male, which are entirely dark. The palpi are white, the falces 

 yellowish" (Peckham). 



This is not a common species; but it is distributed from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific. 



Genus STOIDIS (Sto'i-dis) 



In our species of this genus the small eyes are situated mid- 

 way between the first and third rows; the sternum is not greatly 

 narrowed, but is nearly round; and the ocular quadrangle is much 

 wider in front than behind. 



A single Floridian species represents this genus in this country. 



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