AUT. 13. NEW AMERICAN AND CHINESE SPIDERS CHAMBERLIN. 35 



PELLENES TEXANUS, new species. 



Plate 7. fig. 52. 



Male. — Integument of carapace blackish; pars cephalica clothed 

 between eyes with grayish brown, a band of the same continuing 

 over pars cephalica and down the posterior declivity ; also a narrow 

 longitudinal band of this same color below ej^es on each side and 

 extending caudad, the carapace elsewhere clothed with white and 

 light gray hair. Legs also clothed nearly uniformly with whitish 

 hair, with no distinct banding, but dorsal surface of patella and 

 tibia of first legs clothed with brown. Tarsus of palpus also clothed 

 with brown hair. Venter, sides, and most of abdomen clothed with 

 white appressed hairs; a brown longitudinal stripe along each side 

 of dorsum, the intervening region in type badly rubbed but appar- 

 ently clothed in life chiefly with white. 



Palpal organ as shown in Plate 7, figure 52. 



Length, 4 mm.; cephalothorax, 2.28 mm.; tibia and patella I, 1.25 

 mm. ; tibia and patella IV also 1.25 mm. 



Locality. — Texas: Austin. One male. E. V. Chamberlin, Aug., 

 1909. 



Type.— Cat. No. 571, M. C. Z. 



