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the femora marked with numerous veiy small black dots, particu- 

 larly about bases of spines, these dots more pronounced on femora 

 of the first pair. Abdomen silvery above, with a patch of white 

 spots on each side of dorsum in front, and, over entire length, a 

 few widely separated dark dots about bases of the long setae; sides 

 darkened with small dots and streaks; venter with a silvery, or 

 whitish, stripe on each side, the median region being limited on each 

 side by a black line, the color of the intervening median portion less 

 deep. 



Length of female. 19 mm. ; cephalothorax. 8 mm. ; tibia and patella 

 I, 11 mm. ; tibia and patella IV, 9 mm. 



Length of male, 8 mm. : cephalothorax, 3.5 mm. ; tibia and patella 

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



Locality. — China. Scochow (X. Gist Gee). One male and one 

 female. 



Typ^.— Male, Cat. No. 876, U.S.N.M. 



ARANEA MULTIPLICANS, new species. 



Plate 5, fig. 35. 



Female. — Integument of carapace brown or chestnut; clothed with 

 moderatel}' abundant appressed hairs of light color. Legs with in- 

 tegument similarly chestnut, paler, testaceous to yellow, distally; 

 femor a with a black annulus at distal end and a more or less vague 

 one near middle; patella ringed with dark distall}^; tibiae of two 

 anterior pairs of legs with three annulae, of which the distal is 

 broadest and deepest, the proximal one narrowest; posterior tibiae 

 lacking the median annulus and having the distal one broader; 

 metatarsi dark at ends. Sternum chocolate colored to black with a 

 median longitudinal yellow line. Markings of abdomen not sharply 

 defined. There is in all a broad black band extending from median 

 line of anterior face across each anterolateral corner and back along 

 the side. Over the posterior part of the side this dark band is 

 characteristicalh' interrupted by transverse pale lines extending 

 across it from the dorsal light area. Dorsum at base with a short 

 clavate black mark in the median line. "V^^ien in full color there is 

 along each side of the middorsal pale region a series of short black 

 curved marks, there being about six of these on each side. The me- 

 dian pale band typically embraces a vague median longitudinal dark 

 line which is crossed in front of the middle by a number of equally 

 faint, transverse, chevron marks. The venter is covered between 

 furrow and spinnerets wdth a black area that narrows caudad and 

 incloses toward each lateral edge a characteristic yellow spot. 



Abdomen broadly oval, dorsally planate, evenly rounded, and 

 wholly without angular shoulders or processes. 



