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other. Eyes not black but clear in color. Dorsal eye area a little 

 more than oue-sixth the length of the cephalothorax. 



Form. — Length of chelicera fillly twice the height of the head 

 in front, a line of black hairs on the anterior face of each. Ster- 

 num distinctly longer than broad. Legs long and slender with 

 numerous fine hairs. Cephalothorax in front almost half its 

 greatest transverse diameter, highest at middle, sides of head 

 rather steep. 



Dimensio7is. — Length of cephalothorax, cf, 8.2 mm. ; 9, 

 4.2 mm. 



Length of abdomen, d^, 2.8 mm. ; $,4.1 mm. 



Length of first leg, d^, 9.9 mm. ; 9, 12.5 mm. 



Length of second leg, c?, 9 mm. ; 9, 11.8 mm. 



Length of third leg, cJ', 9 mm. ; 9, 12.1 mm. 



Length of fourth leg, d^, 12.5 mm. ; 9, 16. 7 mm, 



9, Color in Alcohol. — Cephalotliora.v very dark reddish-browu, 

 eye region black, a broad buff median stripe arising between the 

 posterior eyes, widest in its anterior third and most anteriorly 

 containing a narroAv black line, and extending caudad to the end 

 of the thorax ; and there is a much narrower, interrupted sub- 

 marginal stripe. Sternum dark reddish-brown, with a median 

 lighter line anteriorly. Abdomen above considerably lighter than 

 cephalothorax, brown and buff as follows: a dark-broAvn spot at 

 each antero-lateral margin continued backward along the lateral 

 margin of the dorsum as a bi'own line anteriorly and a row^ of 

 brown dots posteriorly, between these brown margins a broad dark- 

 buff band which, on the posterior half, is broken into 4-5 trans- 

 verse buff arches separated by dark-brown aots, and in the anterior 

 half contains a spearhead-shaped black mark terminating in a 

 black spot just behind the middle of the dorsum ; sides dark-buff 

 with numerous brown spots; venter light buff with small black spots 

 arranged in a U-shape, the opening of the U directed cephalad 

 and its curve just anterior to the spinnerets, while the space en- 

 closed by it contains a few minute black dots, Epigynum and 

 spinnerets dark reddish-bi'own ; lung book and region anterior to 

 epigynum pale brownish. Chelicera dark reddish- brown, almost 

 black; labium blackish at base and yellow at tip; maxillce reddish- 

 brown, a little lighter at the distal end. Legs with black spines 

 and short white hairs, reddish-brown and much lighter than the 



