554 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [AugUSt, 



Dimensions. — Length of cephalothorax, cJ*, 7 mm. ; ?, 7.5 mm. 



Length of abdomen, cf, 8 mm. ; ?, 18 mm. 



Length of first leg, d, 28 mm. ; ? , 25 mm. 



Length of second leg, d". 25 ram. ; 9, 23 mm. 



Length of third leg, d", 23 mm. ; 9, 20 mm. 



Length of fourth leg, d, 33 mm. ; 9, 31 mm. 



Color m Life, 9. Cephalothorax pale grayish-buff, a brown- 

 black broad baud on each side of the mid-line enclosing in front 

 the eyes of the corresponding side and passing back to the end of 

 the thorax, the buff line enclosed by these stripes much narrower 

 than them and widest posteriorly; a narrow brown-black sub- 

 marginal line, and a black vertical stripe from each lateral eye of 

 the first row to the ventral margin of the head in front. Stermim 

 pale yellowish with a darker margin. Abdomen above with a 

 black-brown broad median band extending its whole length and 

 widest at the middle, this band generally enclosing two or three 

 oblique brown spots anteriorly and its margins indented by broAvn 

 more posteriorly (though in some individuals such indentations are 

 not present), and margined on each side by a narrower buff baud; 

 sides streaked black-brown and buff above, paler yellow wath a 

 few dai'k spots below; venter grayish-white with one or two pairs 

 of narrow^ longitudinal, slightly darker lines converging from the 

 lung books to the spinnerets. Spinnerets dark, epigymim blackish, 

 lung books grayish-white. Chelicera pale-brown with a reddish 

 prominence at the supero- lateral angle, and a line of darker hairs 

 anteriorly. Labium a paler brown, and maxillce yellowish. Legs 

 pale-brown, darker below than above, metatarsi of all a little 

 darker, as also the distal ends of the tibia and tarsus of the fourth 

 pair. Palpi colored like legs. 



In alcohol the dark-colored stripes appear dark reddish -brown, 

 the legs reddish, and the buff and brown of the abdomen 

 yellowish. 



Color in Life, d. — Similar to the 9 except in following ])oints: 

 The anterior half of the medio-dorsal stri])e of the abdomen a deep 

 black; the first leg black on femur (almost whole extent ventrally, 

 the distal half dorsally), patella, tibia and proximal two-thirds of 

 the tarsas. 



Comparisons. — A clfarly marked species, easily distinguished 



