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versely, polished except for some fine weak transverse rugulosity near 

 its midlength, with small weak punctures on most of its surface, its 

 median longitudinal carinae absent, often replaced by weak ridges, 

 nervellus unbroken or weakly broken near its lower 0.2, the discoidella 

 very weak or absent; hind femur unusually slender; hind tibia of 

 female about 1.0 as long as hind femur; first tergite about 1.35 as 

 long as wide in male, about 1.0 as long as wide in female, its median 

 dorsal carinae sharp for about 0.5 its length; second tergite weakly 

 mat, its central raised area with rather coarse punctures that are 

 separated by about 0.4 their diameter, its margins less densely punc- 

 tate; ovipositor slender, its basal 0.65 straight, its apical 0.35 upcurved. 



Black or blackish brown, the abdomen often reddish brown. Orbits 

 in front and at top of eye, face and cheek of male, spot or vertical 

 stripe below antennal socket of female (this mark usually connected 

 laterally with orbital mark), large mark on cheek of female, clypeus, 

 basal 0.65 of mandible, maxilla, labium, front of scape and pedicel, 

 tegula, stripe on upper margin of pronotum, collar, lower end of pro- 

 pleurum, subtegular ridge, usually two short longitudinal dashes on 

 center of mesoscutum, apex of scutellum, and postscutellum, white; 

 flagellum brown, paler beneath; meso thorax except sometimes upper 

 part of mesopleurum, meta thorax, and often more or less of propo- 

 deum, fulvous; front leg whitish, the femur often brownish fulvous 

 behind; middle leg whitish, the femur with a stramineous or brown 

 dorsoposterior stripe and the tibia and tarsus with infuscations that 

 faintly repeat the pattern on the hind tibia and tarsus; hind coxa ful- 

 vous, white apically; hind trochanters white, the first trochanter 

 fulvous or brown basally, especially above; hind femur whitish, its 

 base and front and back faces largely stramineous, brownish, or 

 fulvous; hind tibia whitish, its basal and apical 0.3 infuscate, the 

 basal infuscate band more or less subdivided by a whitish band; 

 hind tarsus infuscate, the segments whitish basally. 



There is one cocoon in our material. It is elongate elliptic, moder- 

 ately dense, white, and with some loose silk on the surface. There is 

 no hole visible at the hind end. 



Specimens: cf , Robson, B. C, Oct. 23, 1938, H. R. Foxlee (Townes). 

 9, Carmel, Calif., Nov. 7, 1926, L. S. Slevin (Townes). 9, Carmel, 

 Calif., Dec. 30, 1925, L. S. Slevin (San Francisco). 9, reared from 

 either egg case or mature spider of Agelenopsis sp., Fish Canyon, San 

 Gabriel Mts., Apr. 29, 1945, E. I. Schlinger (Schlinger). 9, reared 

 from cocoon found beside body of dead salticid spider, Fish Canyon, 

 San Gabriel Mts., Calif., Jan. 26, 1950, E. I. Schlinger (Townes). d\ 

 Orinda, Contra Costa Co., Calif., Sept. 14, 1953, M. Wasbauer 

 (Berkeley). 9 (type), Pacific Grove, Calif., W. M. Mann (Washing- 

 ton). 9, Santa Ana, Calif., Apr. 27, 1943 (Washington). <?, Vista, 



