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the black. Sides brown and black. Red around spinnerets. Stemum 

 yellow in middle, black about the edges. Male brown ; tibiae of first 

 two legs black; spots on other joints; markings of body faint." 



ARGIOPE VIABILIOR, new species. 

 Pmte 4, fig. 32. 



Male. — Carapace pale testaceous, with lighter streaks radiating 

 from the furrow, wholly without darker markings. Sternum clear 

 yellow. Legs also light colored and wholly without annuli, with 

 the very long spines mostly brown but in part black. Tarsus of 

 palpus black from the dense coat of black hairs. Chelicerae small ; 

 a black line along anterior face of each continuous with one across 

 clypeus. Dorsum of abdomen pale, more or less silvery, on proximal 

 half with a hastate outline formed by dark hair, and on caudal half 

 with two dark longitudinal and parallel lines. Dorsal pale area 

 limited on each side by a wavy dark line, the side below this dark in 

 numerous spots and streaks. Venter with two black lines converging 

 caudad and united along ventral furrow and in front of spinnerets. 



Abdomen long, pointed caudally, with sides but little curved, and 

 subtruncate anteriorly. 



Palpus as shown in Plate 4, figure 32. 



Length, 8.5 mm. ; cephalothorax, 3.6 mm. ; width of cephalothorax, 

 3.2 mm. ; tibia and patella I, 6.5 mm. ; tibia and patella IV, 5 mm. 



Locality. — China: Foochow (N. Gist Gee). One male taken Sep- 

 tember 30. 



Type.— C^t. No. 874, U.S.N.M. 



ARGIOPE AEQUIOR, new species. 

 Plate 4, fig. 33. 



Male. — Integument of carapace light testaceous; sides above with 

 a dark band formed by black hairs, a dark line similarly formed ex- 

 tending caudad from each median oyo, to caudal end of pars cephalica 

 where it nearly meets the one on opposite side; on each side at margin 

 a dark spot above second leg and a smaller one above the third one. 

 Sternum yellow, with a small black spot at border opposite each 

 endite and each leg of the first three pairs. Legs yellow excepting 

 for a black line along ventral surface of femora of first three pairs 

 of legs, this line typically absent, or but partially developed, on 

 femora of fourth legs. Abdomen light dorsally, with a solid l>rown 

 sagittate mark over anterior half to two-thirds of length, this mark 

 sending out some short lines from each edge. Light dorsal area 

 limited on each side anteriorly by a longitudinal black line, and pos- 

 teriorly by a series of black lines that run from the pale area 

 obliquely cephaloventrad on the side. Venter marked over entire 



