834 A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



The male (see fig. 210) has much longer and more slender legs and 

 palpi, and smaller body. Color lighter yellowish brown, with black 

 hairs. Lives in outbuildings, making a large, dense web, with a 

 deep funnel-shaped den behind timbers and in other similar places. 



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Scytodes longipes Lucas ; Long-legged Spider. 



Although the body is small (about 9-1 mm long), the legs are very 

 long, the anterior ones being about 65 to 70 mm , or about 2.5 inches 

 long. In an adult male they are orange-brown, with a conspicuous 

 brownish black band at the knee joints, and fainter narrow dark 

 brown bands or blotches on the femora, with a larger dark spot on 

 the basal joint beneath ; Cephalothorax tawny brown, mottled and 

 specked with darker brown and pale } T ellow, and having a rudely 

 lyre-shaped dorsal blackish area, enclosing a light yellow area, with 

 golden reflections when dry, from which a pale line runs on each 

 side to the prominent, black, lateral or posterior eyes, which are 

 situated far back, and a median pale line goes to the pair of closely 

 conjoined anterior eyes. On the black, lyre-like patch are about six 

 small, pale yellow, roundish spots, having a silvery or golden luster 

 when dry, forming a somewhat circular group ; others that are less 

 distinct are scattered on the sides ; posterior area silvery, preceded 

 by a blackish blotch. 



The female is similar but darker, with the dark markings more 

 distinctly blackish, and with the legs darker and more conspicuously 

 banded or else spotted with blackish on most of their length. It is 

 a very active species, which lives in large loosely constructed w T ebs, 

 especially in the mouths of caverns. It runs over the webs with 

 great agility by reason of its long legs. 



Dysdera crocata Koch ; Orange Spider.. 



Cephalothorax and legs plain bright orange-rufous or reddish 

 brown, above and below; eyes black; abdomen pale buff or grayish. 

 Length 12-13 mm . Common under stones. 



f Hypslnotus pumilis Keys. See Banks, p. 270. Brown Spider. 



A rather large orange or reddish brown spider, with stout legs. 

 Cephalothorax plain dark reddish brown posteriorly ; blackish ante- 

 riorly ; abdomen dark tawny brown, with a median sagittate pale 

 streak, its shaft crossed b}^ several recurved, narrow pale lines. 



