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sembles the sides in color and marking. The lower surface of the ceplia- 

 lothorax is shield or heart shaped, black in the centre but dull red 

 at the sides. 



The 1st and 2d segments (shanks) of the limbs are dull red; the 3d 

 segment (thigh) is dirty yellow, but in the first, second and fourth 

 pairs the distal third is dull red, and covered with a brush of stiff 

 black hairs ; the depth of the color and the size of the brush decreases 

 from the first to the fourth pair ; the thigh of the third pair is perhaps 

 a shade darker where the brushes are upon the others. The 4th seg- 

 ment is dull red in all the legs ; the 5th is, in all, dirty yellow as to its 

 proximal portion (a little less than half) while the distal portion is 

 dull red. In the third pair it presents a few scattering black hairs, but 

 on the other three pairs there is a hair brush like that upon the thigh, 

 completely encircling the limb, but the hairs are set a little more nearly 

 at right angles with the surface. There are also a few black hairs on 

 the under side just at the junction of the 5th with the 4th segments, 

 and in the third pair a few in the place of the hair brushes on the others. 

 The proximal portions, (again less than one-half) of the 6th segment 

 (1st of the foot) is dark dirty yellow and the distal portion, with the 

 7th segment, is dark dull red, or nearly black, and both segments are 

 covered with short black hairs. Upon the proximal yellow portion of 

 the 3d and 5th segments are very fine short hairs, with a few longer 

 ones intermixed. 



The outer half of the maxlllas is dirty yellow, the inner half, 

 with the 1st segment of the palpi, dull red ; 2d segment dirty yellow 

 and covered by very small black hairs, the 3d segment is dull red, 

 likewise the 4th and 5th, the latter being nearly black and thickly 

 covered by black hairs. 



Of the eight eyes, the four Intermediate ones form a square, and are 

 set at the four corners of a prominence ; the lateral eyes are set upon 

 the extremities of two more oblique tubercles, those of each pair being 

 separated from each other by more than their own diameter, and look- 

 ing, the one downward and forward and the other upward and back- 

 ward. 



The body of the male Is one-fourth of an inch in length, and his 

 legs spread less than one inch in a longitudinal and three-fourths of 

 an inch in a lateral direction. The general color of both body and 

 legs is dark-brown, the former presenting a median dorsal stripe of 

 a darker color, and the latter a few scattering black hairs, but no 

 such brushes as those of the female. His palpi are strongly clavate at 

 the middle of their length and end in a sharp point turning outward. 



I have never, during a two years' stay on the coast and in the in- 

 terior of South Carolina and Florida, met with any traces of this 

 spider elsewhere than near Long Island ; nor, with the exception of 



