Peclcliam — Spiders of the Family Attidae. 315 



Dendrypli allies limhatus Banks. 



Arachnida from Baja, California, and other parts of Mexico. 

 Proc. California Academy of Sciences, Third Series, Vol. I, 

 1^0. 7, p. 282. 



This species, which j\Ir. Banks places in the genus Philaeus, 

 seems to be ideTitical with Philaeus consimilis Banks, described 

 in the same paper, p. 283. 



6. Length 5 mm ; ? 5 mm. Legs 6 1423 ; first plainly the 

 longest; ? 1423. Falces, $> 2.5 mm. ; fang as long. 



The cephalothorax is moderately high and has a ronnded ap- 

 pearance, being nearly as wide as long. The first row of eyes 

 is almost straight, the middle being snbtoiiching and less than 

 twice as large as the lateral, which are a very little separated 

 from them. The second row is a very little nearer to the first 

 than to the third, and the third is narrower than the cephalo- 

 thorax at that place. The quadrangle of the eyes is one-third 

 wider than long', and is wider b hind than in front. The ceph- 

 alic part is a little inclined, and the thoracic falls scarcely at 

 all until the last third, when it drops abruptly. In the male the 

 whole body is bronze. The eye-region and a central band down 

 the dorsum of the abdomen are covered w^ith green metallic 

 scales. The cephalothorax has a white line around the margin, 

 and a white band starting from the lateral eye and running back 

 on to the thorax, but not quite uniting with its fellow of the op- 

 pt)site side. The abdomen has a white band around the base 

 and sides, which does not reach the spinnerets. The female is 

 similar, but lacks the white bands. The falces of the male are 

 long, oblique, and divergent, with a strong tooth underneath, and 

 a long, slender fang. In the female they are vertical and paral- 

 lel. The coloring is bronze, with iridescent scales. The legs 

 are dark brown Avith the tarsi pale, and the proximal ends of 

 the femora lighter, especially in the third and fourth. The 

 palpi are dark brown, those of the male having white scales and 

 a row of short black spines on the rather elongated patella. 



D. laetahilis has no white band on the cephalothorax and has 

 the falces not long and slender, but heavy, with two teeth on 

 the lower side, and a long apophysis from the middle of the in- 

 ner edge of each f alx. 



