Pedcliam — Spiders of the Family Attidae. 333 



are reddish brown, contrasting with the darker body. All of 

 them have the femur darker colored than the other joints and 

 highly iridescent, and in the first leg it is much thickened. The 

 first leg has, on the femur, a heavy fringe of dark hairs above, 

 and of pure white hairs below. The patella has a short white 

 fringe, and the tibia a longer, scanty one of smoky colored hairs. 

 The palpus has, across the proximal end of the tarsus, a wide, 

 transverse band of pure white hairs. This point alone would 

 serve to easily distinguish this species from auripes, in which 

 the palpus has a long fringe of brown hairs on each side. 



We have one male, from Victoria, sent to us by Mr. Frost, 

 to whom we are indebted for a large number of Australian At- 

 tidae. 



Jotus arci pluvii, sp. nov. 

 PI. XXV, fig. 16 ; PL XXVI, figs. 5-5a. 



$. Length 6 mm. Legs 14-82. 



This species has the cephalic part very slightly inclined and 

 the thoracic slopes only very slightly in the first third, and then 

 rather steeply. 



The cephalotliorax is black, with a band of white hairs around 

 the lower sides. The hairs, above, are mostly rubbed off, but 

 form a scalloped gold-colored band around the eye region, and 

 grow yellow and thick on the face and clypeus. The abdomen 

 is black with two transverse white bands, one near the front end, 

 and one behind the middle, back of which are several transverse 

 white lines. The bands are made of scale-like hairs, which also 

 grow scattered over the dorsum, and in tufts on each side of the 

 spinnerets. The lower part of the front end is black. The legs 

 are pale, excepting on the tibiae and distal ends of the metatarsi 

 of the first and second, which are smoky-colored, with dark hairs, 

 and the distal ends of the femora of the third and fourth, which 

 are dark. The palpi are pale brown. 



We have one male from St. Cruz, Australia. 



