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the clypeus with yellow and some white. Chelicerce yellow to brown 

 each with a short black median mark at base, clothed with whitish 

 pubescence and sparee long brown bristles. Endites, labium and 

 coxce of legs yellow to brown. 



Sternum usually black, often with a lighter median line in front, 

 clothed with yellow or yellowish-white pubescence; sometimes lighter, 

 dark brown or even yellow with or without dark spots. Legs yellow 

 with dark rings on all joints except the tarsi, clothed ^vith whitish 

 and some short darker pubescence. Abdomen above at base with a 

 yellow to reddish-brown stripe ending in front of middle; opposite 

 apex of basal mark an angular pale spot with dark dot in center, 

 and behind a series of transverse rows of similar spots more or 

 less confluent transversely as usual; often a yellow line close to and 

 parallel with the margin of the basal mark on each side; dorsum 

 laterally black with numerous small yellow dots; dorsum clothed 

 with brown and white pubescence, the white in part in angular spots 

 at sides and in transverse lines between the pale marks of tegument; 

 sides yellow with many spots and mottlings of brown or above of black, 

 in life covered with pubescence in intermixed spots and streaks of 

 white and brown; venter pale, rarely dark, densely clothed with light 

 gray pubescence. 



Spinnerets yellow or light brown. 



Epigynum brown, darker, reddish at margins. 



Face relatively high, nearly of same height as length of chelicerae; 

 sides nearly straight, subvertical. Cephalothorax high, the posterior 

 declivity very steep, in profile nearly level from third eye row to 

 posterior declivity, slightly depressed at median furrow, sides steep. 



Anterior row of eyes much shorter than the second, only slightly 

 procurved; anterior median eyes nearly three-fourths their diameter 

 apart, evidently closer to the lateral eyes ; anterior lateral eyes visibly 

 smaller than the median, of usual distance from eyes of second row 

 and from the front margin of clypeus; eyes of second row not quite 

 once and a half their diameter apart. Quadrangle of posterioV eyes 

 more than one-fourth the length of the cephalothorax. 



Labium a little wider than long (6.25 : 6) ; basal excavation more than 

 one-fourth the total length of labium; sides substraight, strongly 

 converging anteriorly ; front margin slightly convex. 



Legs slender; metatarsus of fourth pair of same length as tibiie and 

 patella together; spines of anterior tibiae as usual; anterior tarsi with 

 but very sparse scopulae at sides, posterior tarsi setose and spinulose as 

 usual. 



