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but with grayii-h haivrJ, these most densely grouped on the margins 

 of the posterior half where they compose two grayish bands. 

 L^uig books pale yellowish-white. Spinnerets dark at base and light 

 at tips. Chelicera and labium deei) black, maxillce brownish-black. 

 Legs : First leg with the coxa, femur, patella and tibia deep black, 

 tarsus and metatarsus yellowish-brown, the tarsus with a black 

 ring at its proximal end, short black hairs hide the claws of the 

 metatarsus, the tibia thickly covered with long black thick hairs 

 implanted on all sides, but most numerous dorsally and ventrally, 

 each tibia thus resembling a black brush (but the hairs relatively 

 not as long as in L. ocreata pulchra) ; second leg with the coxa, 

 femur, patella and tibia black, tarsus yellowish -brown, with dark 

 rings at the ends and one in the middle, metatai-sus yellowish- 

 brown ; third and fourth legs with the coxa and femur deep black, 

 the patella rufous-black, the tibia, tarsus and metatarsus yellowish- 

 brown with dark rings ; the distal ends of all metatarsi black. 

 Palpi black, except the tarsus, which is brownish-black. 



In alcohol the dorso-median thoracic appears red, that of the 

 abdomen brownish. 



?. Color in Life.— Cephalothora.c black, a broad median band 

 conj posed of long gray-buff hairs (not nearly white as in the c?) 

 extending from the posterior eyes to the posterior end of the 

 thorax, broadest anteriorly where it occupies the whole space 

 between the second and even extends a little lateral to them, filling 

 the space between the third eyes and with a slight constriction at 

 this point, enlarging slightly at middle and here more or less 

 distinctly notched, narrower behind. To each side of this band 

 the black color is hairless, but on the lower sides with rather 

 sparsely scattered white hairs, such hairs forming also a very 

 narrow marginal band. Sides of head, forehead and clypeus rusty 

 black. Sternum a rusty dark-brown with a narrow pale margin. 

 Abdomen above at base, next to pedicel, with a lransvei*se band of 

 black, and when the abdomen is viewed strictly from the dorsum 

 each end of this band appears as a large black spot at an antero- 

 lateral margin, and in some individuals these spots are continuous 

 with those jjlaced posteriorly; ground c(jIor of dorsum buff- brown, 

 with large irregular spots of black on tiie margins converging 

 toward tlie spinnerets, two pairs of tl)ese spots on the anterior half 

 being particularly prominent, corresponding spots of opposite sides 



