PecJcham — Spiders of the Family Attidae, 



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a ^ 



{ Color brick-red; legs barred with lighter and 

 ' darker brown; first and second legs very 



short in proportion to size of spider (total 



(^ length about 11.5 mm., first leg about 7 mm.) 



rufus 



b -i 



Color varying from yellowish brown to red;^ legs 

 barred with lighter and darker brown; first 

 and second legs not short in proportion to size 

 of spider (total length about 9 mm., first leg 

 about 3 mm. J multiformis 



5 i 



( Cephalothorax and legs uniform dark brown 



c -j or black; palpi dark; habitat, Florida, New 



( Mexico 



f Cephalothorax and legs uniform dark brown 



J \ or black; palpi pale brown; two bands uf 



] vvhite, scale-like hairs on venter; habitat, 



[^ Washington, California, Mexico 



rirnator 



Johnsonii 



f Cephalothorax with narrow white bands along 

 I lower sides and wide white bands higher up, 

 j the space between being brownish; the wide 

 white bands cross the ciypeus and are con- 

 tinuous over the thoracic part; cephalic plate 

 dark brown ^nontivagus 



{ Upper surface of abdomen black with central white 



j spot 



6 ■{ Upper surface of abdomen brown, grey or yellow; or 

 I if black, having a pair of white spots on middle of 

 (^ dorsum 



7 

 8 



a <! 



I 



Abdomen with a white band around anterior 

 end; and having a pair of white dots in front 

 of central white spot, and two transverse or 

 oblique white bars behind it; cephalothorax 

 black, without white bands on the sides 



morsitans 



{ Abdomen with scalloped white band almost en- 

 i circling the black upper surface, a pair of 

 -{ white dots in front of central white spot, and 

 I a pair of oblique white bars behind it; cephalo- 

 l^ thorax black without white bands 



farneus 



7 < 



f Abdomen with a central longitudinal scalloped 

 J black band enclosing a white spot; sides grey; 

 1 cephalothorax black with a wide white band 

 I entirely surrounding the cephalic part Worknianii 



{ Abdomen with a white band around the front 

 end and two or three pairs of oblique lines or 



I spots behind the central spot; cephalothorax 

 d <( with wide white bands, which pass along the 

 sides and meet on the thorax, and a narrow 

 white|crescent, which curves forward from the 

 dorsal eyes on to the cephalic plate Rauterhergii 



> Since the adult females of inuUifor^nis are usually orange or red it is classed among 

 the red spiders, although this color is sometimes lacking. 



