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length with three longitudinal black lines, the mesal edges of the 

 outer ones of which are irregular and the median one more or less 

 interrupted. 



Abdomen nearly as in the preceding species; narrowly truncate 

 behind, a little rounded in front. 



Obviously differing from the preceding species in the form of the 

 tibial apophyses of palpus. The principal apophysis similarly 

 placed but longer and more slender, with the black apical part bent 

 strongly ectocephalad, subuncate. See further Plate 4, figure 33. 



Length, 7.5 mm. ; cephalothorax, 3 mm. ; width of cephalo thorax, 

 2.6 mm. ; tibia and patella I, 5 mm. ; tibia and patella IV, 3.6 mm. 



Locality. — China: Soochow (N. Gist Gee). Two males. 



Type.—C2ii. No. 875, U.S.N.M. 



MIRANDA ZABONIKA, new species. 

 Plate 4, fig. 34. 



Female. — Resembling M. aurantia in size but differing conspicu- 

 ously in coloration, the proportionately longer legs, and the more 

 slender abdomen. Carapace without markings above, a little dusky 

 at sides, pale, clothed densely with a coat of long white hairs. 

 Sternum black along each side, white in a broad stripe along the 

 middle. Femora of the last three pairs of legs yellow, with a black 

 ring at distal end; the femora of first legs black excepting for a 

 yellow annulus a little proximad of distal end. Other joints of all 

 legs yellow, with black annulae, the patella with one annulus about 

 distal half, the tibia with three, the metatarsus similarly with three, 

 of which the median is much longest, and the tarsus with one at 

 distal end. The abdomen narrowly and smoothly subelliptic in out- 

 line, more pointed behind. The general color dorsally silvery from 

 a dense coat of hair of that color, crossed by numerous narrow black 

 lines which are farther apart in anterior region than in posterior. 

 The ends of these dark lines connected on each side by a heavier 

 wavy, or zigzag, line below which the sides are darkened by numer- 

 ous finer dark lines which are mostly somewhat oblique. Venter 

 witli a black band between epigynum and spinerets enclosing a 

 few small yellow dots and bordered on each side by a longitudinal 

 yellow band separating it from the dark of the sides. 



Epigynum having the same general structure as that of aurantia, 

 the cavity being undivided by a septum, covered beneath by a broad 

 and long, caudally narrowing, process from the atriolum. 



Male. — The male, as usual, very much smaller than the female and 

 differing much in coloration. Carapace pale excepting for a narrow 

 longitudinal brownish stripe at each side of dorsum, this not extend- 

 ing on pars cephalica. Sternum as in the female. Legs without 

 dark annulae excepting a very narrow one at distal end of tibia ; but 



