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ish brown to yellowish with two rather wide longliludinal dark stripes which are 

 but narrowly separated on each side from the dark of the sides. Anterior lateral 

 eyes with diameter once and two-thirds that of the medians; median eyes about livc- 

 sixfhs their diameter apart, twice and a half their diameter from the laterals. Lower 

 margin of furrow of chelicera with four teeth, of which the most proximal is largest. 

 Tibii I and II armed with five spines, one at base, two sub-median and two apical. 

 Epigynum as shown in plae 1, fig. 4. 



\lalf — Carapace and legs somewhat paler than in the female. Eves less widely 

 separated. Palpal organs as represented in plate I, fig. 5. 



Type— M. C. Z. 372. Cal.: Claremont. Type taken by the author in 1909. Para- 

 types take in 1913. Also In 1918 coll. of Prof. Hilton. 



The genus to which this and the preceding species belong, known from South 

 .America and the Atlantic Islands, has not previously been recorded from North 

 .America. 



Diityna mians sp. nov. 



Female — Pars cephalica yellowish, other parts of carapace brown to fuscous. 

 Sternum yellowish, sometimes a little dusky, with the labium similar, but endites 

 ordinarily paler. Legs not annulate in the types though the femora may be slightly 

 darkened and the tibia and metatarsus show vague darkening at distal end. Ab- 

 domen above yellowish, with a dark spot in front of middle from which some fine 

 dark lines railiatc and anastamnse to form a network, the median longitudinal line the 

 best developed of these; typically three pairs of widely separated dark spots on 

 posterior portion, but these often broken or indistinct. Venter darker, sometimes a 

 median yellow spot in front of the cribellum with one in each edge of dark area. 

 .Anterior row of eyes straight; median eyes their diameter or a little more from the 

 laterals, farther from each other. Posterior eyes nearly equidistant. Area of median 

 eyes wider behind than in front. Epigynum, plate 3, fig. S. 



Type— M. C. Z. 385. 



Cal.: Los Angeles Co. ( R. V. Chamberlin); also northern part of stale (Peck- 

 ham coll.). 



Has resemblance to P. laliarata, occurring in the same localities, but easily dis- 

 tinguished by the structure of the epigynum and the more widely separated eyes. 



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Plrttmtrys suftrrntins sp. nov. 

 Frmalf — Differs at sight from /'. aislanfa Simon, which occurs in the same region. 

 In Its much longer legs, lighter, more dilute chestnut, carapace, and the proportion- 

 ately shorter and higher abdomen. The legs are brown, of less chestnut cast, with the 

 first ones not ronirasting by deeper, fuscous color. Sternuin pale chestnut like the 

 carapace. .Abdomen cinereous of slight greenish cast, with pale median mark on 

 dorsum at base. The anterior row of eyes is longer than in caslanfa with the 

 lateral eyes comparatively smaller , their diameter not exceeding once and a half 

 that of the medians; median eyes atwut their radius apart, much farther removed 

 from the laterals than in eatlanra, the distance being from two and a half to three 

 limes their diameter. Posterior row of eyes distinctly a little recurved Instead of 

 straight, with the median eyes larger than the laterals instead of a little smaller, 



