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•darker in some specimens than in others, with white scales on all 

 the joints. The first has the tarsus and the proximal ends of 

 the patella, tibia, and metatarsus light colored, while the other 

 parts are darker. The others have the metatarsus and tarsus 

 light, and the other joints dark. The palpus is brown, with 

 white scales on all the joints, especially on the femur and pa- 

 tella. There is a pointed apophysis on the tibia. The falces 

 are vertical and bulge out in fix)nt, more in some specimens than 

 in others. They are brown, the front faces being covered with 

 white scales. The maxillae are rounded. The female has the 

 whole cephalothorax mottled with white and chestnut hairs, the 

 white predominating. The abdomen is similar, with the color 

 inclining to grayish. On the posterior half of the dorsum are 

 two short, longitudinal, dark bands, each crossed by three trans- 

 verse white bars. Between the bands the dorsum is sometimes 

 bronzy. The dark bands sometimes run forward nearly to the 

 front end, when they have a fourth pair of white bars. The 

 legs are dark brovrn, excepting that the second, third and fourth 

 pairs have the proximal two-thirds of the femur pale. The 

 falces are slightly swollen and covered with white scales. 



We have one male in which the first leg on one side is scarcely 

 longer than the second. It has probably been broken off and 

 replaced. Some of the males are colored like the females. 



This species is distinguished from vigens by its coloring, 

 from fauslus by having only one apophysis on the tibia of the 

 palpus, and from octopunctatiis by having the tube of the palpus 

 long and spirally curved, instead of short and straight. 



We have numerous exam^ples from Chapoda, Para, Sao Paulo, 

 and Paraguay. 



Dendrypliantes vigens^ sp. no v. 

 PI. XXYII, fig. 



3. 



$. Length 5 mm. Legs 1423 ; first stoutest and much the 

 longest ; others not very unequal. The first exceeds the second 

 by the tarsus, metatarsus and nearly all of the tibia. 



The quadrangle of the eyes occupies two-fifths of the cephalo- 

 thorax and is plainly wider behind, where it is one-third as wide 



