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as those of the second row, and about as far from them as from 

 each other. Dorsal eye area less than one-fifth the length of the 

 cephalothorax. 



iTonn.— Chelicera not 1^ times the length of the head in front, 

 sides of head comparatively steep. Sternum longer than broad. 

 Legs stout and tapering. 



Dimensiom.—Length oi cephalothorax, 4.2 mm. 

 Length of abdomen, 7 mm. 

 Length of first leg, 12.5 mm. 

 Length of second leg, 12 mm. 

 Length of third leg, 12 mm. 

 Length of fourth leg, 16 mm. 



Color in Life.— Cephalothorax with a narrow median stripe of 

 long buff hairs extending from the second row of eyes to the pos- 

 terior end of the thorax, its anterior two-fifths divided into two by 

 a black line; the remainder of the cephalothorax black with short 

 brown hairs, and a few scattered long buff hairs on the posterior 

 aspects of the sides. Sternum black with scattered long white 

 hah-s. Abdomen above lighter than cephalothorax, very dark 

 chocolate-brown, a tuft of long buff hairs at the anterior dorso- 

 median edge and two very short stripes of similar hairs diverging 

 backward from this tuft, between them a median blackish mark 

 shaped like a spearhead and terminating in a point anterior to the 

 middle, and on the outer side of each buff stripe an indistinct 

 blackish band ; to either side of the mid-line a row of 4-5 minute 

 spots, each composed of a few thick snow-white hairs; sides paler 

 chocolate-brown, with numerous small white spots; venter buff 

 with two lines of blackish color, converging from the lung books 

 to the spinnerets, and two less distinct dark lines converging from 

 epigynum not as far back as the spinnerets, and numerous dark 

 small spots on the remainder of the venter. Lung books yellow, 

 epigynal margins blackish, area around epigynum brown, spin- 

 nerets blackish-brown. Chelicera deep black, a nearly white 

 knoblike projection at the supero-lateral angle of each. Labium 

 deep black. 3faxilla^ rufous-black like the under surface of the 

 coxcB. Legs deep rufous-brown with white hairs and black spines, 

 femora a little lighter than the other joints. 



In alcohol the black of the thorax and sternum becomes a 



