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of the abdomen is also yellow, the cephalothorax is all dark, 

 and the f alces are riifiis, and not iridescent. 



We have a single female from Long Island sent to us by Col. 

 iN'icholas Pike. 



Pliidvpinis CO mat us J sp. no v. 

 'I. XXIII, figs. 8-8c. 



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This is a small species. The male is handsome, with gold- 

 colored hair on the abdomen, and the first leg fringed throtigh- 

 out its length with long white hairs. The female is gray, with 

 a white herring-bone stripe on the abdomen. 



6. Length Q.S. Length of cephalothorax 3.5 ; width, 3. Legs 

 1432. 



?. Length 10. Length of cej)halothorax 3.5; width, 2.S. 

 Legs 4132. 



The male and female bear so little resemblance to each other 

 that we pnt them together with some hesitation, although they 

 were sent to us as one species. In the male the ground color of 

 the cephalothorax is black. The sides are covered with white, 

 and the eye-region with yellow hairs. In front of the dorsal eye 

 and overhanging the eye of the second row, is a long tuft of 

 stiff bristly hairs. The f alces are slender and darkly iridescent, 

 with green and violet reflections. On the clypeus and the inner 

 edges of the falces are long white hairs. The abdomen has a 

 thin covering of long hairs, which look brown, yellow, or whit- 

 ish, according to the way the light strikes them. Under these 

 is a coat of shorter gold-colored hairs around the anterior end 

 and the sides. In the middle of the dorsum are two paler spots. 

 In our specimen there is a dark central region, scalloped at the 

 edges, e'xtending from these spots to the spinnerets, which is 

 rubbed entirely bare. The legs are barred with dark brown 

 and black. The first one has a remarkably long fringe of snow- 

 white hairs on the underside of all the joints, even extending on 

 to the tarsus. 



In the cephalothorax of the female the integument on the 

 eye-region and on the sides and posterior part is black, but a 

 band of bright reddish-brown runs across just behind the dor- 



