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laterals. Posterior median eyes nearly of same size as the anterior 

 medians, nearly twice as far from each other as from the laterals. 



Femur I dorsally with three rows of spines, three spines in each 

 roAV, as in aureolus; femur IV above with a single basal and one 

 submedian spine and with two at distal end. 



Median piece of epigynum very narrow anteriorly, but strongly 

 clavatel}'^ widening caudad, posteriorly in contact with or a little 

 overlapped by the strongly chitinous edges of the epigynum. See 

 further Plate 5, figure 38. 



Length, 5.5 mm.; cephalothorax, 2.2 mm.; tibia and patella I, 32 

 mm. ; tibia and patella IV, 2.8 mm. 



Locality. — China: Kuliang (N. Gist Gee). One female taken in 

 grass. 



Type.— C2it. No. 882, U.S.X.M. 



PHILODROMUS LOUISIANUS. new species. 



Plate 5, fig. 39. 



Female. — Carapace dusky brown to nearly black on the sides, leav- 

 ing a broad median light band which is anteriorly wider than the 

 eye-area. The median light band embraces a dark spot on caudal 

 end of pars cephalica, this spot geminate by a median longitudinal 

 light line. Eyes ringed with pale. Clypeus dark, as also the cheli- 

 cerae. Sternum yellowish. Legs dusky brown excepting the proxi- 

 mal end of femur, which is paler, yellowish, the light color some- 

 times extending along the ventral surface. Abdomen dark above, 

 with a median pale area on anterior portion, the pale area embracing 

 a dark lanceolate mark ; venter greyish, witliout definite markings. 



Posterior row of eyes recurved; median eyes three times as far 

 from each other as from the laterals. Anterior median eyes farther 

 from each other than from the corresponding laterals in ratio 7 : 5. 

 Area of median eyes much wider behind than in front (5:3), and 

 about of same length as wddth in front. Anterior row of eyes very 

 nearly straight. Anterior lateral eyes a little larger than the me- 

 dians, from which they are separated by a distance less than that 

 sej)arating them from the posterior medians (4:5), a little nearer to 

 the posterior medians than to the posterior laterals. 



Legs strongly scopulate, the scopulae on the anterior ones extend- 

 ing over tarsus and metatarsus nearly equal to the basal spinas of the 

 latter. Three pairs of spines above on femur I. 



Cephalothorax a little wider than long (7 : G.5). 



Epigynum (pi. 5, fig. 39). 



Length, 6 mm. ; cephalothorax, 3 mm. ; tibia and patella I, 4 

 mm. ; tibia and patella IV. 3.5 mm. 



