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spots from the middle toward the sides. In the males the legs 

 are dark brown except the inner half of the femur of the third 

 and fourth, which is light like the abdomen. The male cepha- 

 lothorax is dark and has a square white spot between the eyes, 

 two white lines pointing up from the third and fourth legs each 

 side, and two short white lines under the dorsal eyes. The 

 under side of the thorax and legs is dark or light like the upper 

 side. The under side 

 of the abdomen is 

 usually darker in the 

 middle and some- 

 times has a few black 

 spots each side. This 

 is a common spider 

 in the southern states 

 and has been found as 

 far south as Brazil. 



Dendryphantes mili- 

 taris. — This spider 

 resembles in many 

 ways the next spe- 

 cies, Dendryphantes 

 cestivalis, but is one- 

 half larger and has 

 a shorter and wider 

 cephalothorax. The general color is brown, covered with gray 

 and black hairs. The abdomen of the female is brown, with 

 white at the front end and four pairs of oblique white marks in 

 the middle and four at the sides (fig. 140). In the male the 

 cephalothorax has a white band on each side under the eyes 

 and a white band around the abdomen, with a dark middle area 

 (fig. 141). The dark parts of the legs and cephalothorax are 

 darker than the same parts in the female. The palpi are 



140 141 



Figs. 140, 141. Dendryphantes militaris. — 140, female. 

 141, male. Both enlarged six times. 



