182 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [May^. 



Length of leg III, 5 mm. 



Length of leg IV, 7.7 mm. ; tib. + pat., 2.3 mm. ; met., 2.6 mm. 



Locality. — Austin, Texas !. 



Fardosa banksi Chamberlin, 1904. 



(Canadiitn Entomologist, Vol. XXXVI, p. 175.) 



Female. — Eye region and sides of cephalothorax black or brownish 

 black; on each side a distinct supramarginal yellow band which 

 reaches to the clypeus in front; a less clearly marked median dagger- 

 shaped band of brown along dorsum from posterior margin to the 

 third eye row, this band but little wider than the lateral bands except 

 at its expanded anterior end, where, however, its lateral portions are 

 obscure; clypeus yellow, marked below each anterior lateral eye with 

 a triangular black spot, the apex of which is at the eye, and the base 

 upon the front margin of clypeus. Chelicerce smoky yellow, with a 

 dark line running down near the inner side and bending obliquely 

 outward across the front face distally, there becoming indistinct; a 

 black -line along each margin of the lateral condyle. Sternum light 

 brown with a black median lanceolate stripe which is divided anteriorly 

 by a short yellow line. Legs clear yellow or pale brown of a greenish 

 hue, or with faint traces of rings on the posterior ones, otherwise 

 entirely without markings. Abdomen above black with a reddish 

 yellow lanceolate stripe at base, with a similarly colored quadrate spot 

 with black dot at center each side of apex, and a series of transverse 

 yellow marks behind formed of similar spots united in pairs; an indis- 

 tinct light mark joining the basal lanceolate stripe on each side near 

 its base and another one joining it near the middle on each side, these 

 marks formed of rows of small dots ; sides of abdomen black like the 

 dorsum except for a yellow spot or stripe in front below each antero- 

 lateral angle; venter yellow with a brown spot enclosing spinnerets 

 and a median dark line extending from this spot forward to the epigy- 

 num. Anterior spinnerets brown, the posterior ones more yellow. 

 Epigynum light reddish brown. 



Face as high as the length of the chelicerse or very nearly so; sides 

 straight and subvertical. Cephalothorax highest a little behind third 

 eye row, from where in profile the dorsal line is straight to the posterior 

 declivity. 



Anterior row of eyes shorter than the second, of the usual relative 

 length, gently procurved; anterior median eyes fully three-fourths their 

 diameter apart, closer to the lateral eyes, a little more than their 

 diameter from eyes of second row; anterior lateral eyes about three- 



