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superior spines is a yellow mark ; the sides have small yellow spots, and 

 on the venter there is a curved row or stripe each side, which unite be- 

 yond the spinnerets ; sternum brown. 



Arizona. (Tovvnsend.) Easily distinguished from any of our other 

 Acrosomas, but nearly allied to A. mitrata, Hentz. 

 Habrocestum sigfiatum, n. sp. 



^ . — Length, 4.5 mm. Cephalothorax brown, clothed with red hair 



on clypeus, gray on eye-region, on side margins, and on each side behind 



leaving a median nearly black stripe. Abdomen clothed with gray hair 



above, with a curved brown stripe each side uniting at apex, and near 



there connected by several faint dark chevrons ; near base is a median 



diamond-shaped dark brown mark, touching each stripe. Legs pale 



yellowish, a dark spot at tip of the patella, leg L more reddish, the 



femora with several bunches of short black hair on under side near tip, 



nearly fully the length under the patella and tibia, on latter broad and 



heavy, especially at base, where there are black scale-like hairs (no bunch 



above on tibia as in B. hirsutuni) ; elsewhere the legs are clothed with 



long white hair. Patella IIL not modified, but nearly as long as tibia 



IIJ. Under side of body clothed with gray hair. The spider, when dry, 



has a general hoary appearance. The female which appears to belong 



to this species is 6 mm. long ; it has a dark cephalothorax clothed with 



gray and yellowish hair ; clypeus white with a white fringe on margin and 



over eyes ; legs pale yellowish, darker on outside of tibiae and metatarsi ; 



dorsum of abdomen dark brown, a median pale irregular stripe 



on posterior half, and each side the pale runs up in an oblique 



manner; venter pale. The palpus of male much on the style of H. 



hirsutum, but with the stylet not near as long and the projection from 



tibia more acute ; at base there is a stiff bristle-like projection or hair, 



which lies across the base of the bulb. 



Los Angeles, Calif. (Davidson.) 



Scitis cinciipes, n. sp. 



Length, 3.7 mm. Cephalothorax black, two large oblique red-brown 

 spots behind the eye-region, nearly touching on the middle line, clothed 

 above with white hairs, more yellowish in front ; mandibles yellowish 

 brown ; legs yellowish, banded most distinctly from below with brown ; one 

 on anterior femora, two on hind femora, one on patellte, one on tibise, 

 two on metatarsi, and one on hind margin of hind coxai ; palpi also 

 banded. Abdomen pale grayish, with many brown spots of irregular 



