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Cb/or M Life, *. — Cephal(^hornx black, with a median brown 

 band that oommeiioes anierioriy at the posterior eres and there i; 

 nearlj as broad as the eve area, i5 coastricted a little before the 

 middle, enlarges again around the dorsal groove but is narrowed 

 behind it ; there is a less distinct narrow submarginal brown band 

 on the sids posteriorly, and brown on the sides of the head. 

 •Sfenmai black with white hairs and a %hler median line. Abdo- 

 men ahive with a large black spot at each antero-lateral margin, a 

 vellowish-brown brxiad median band on the anterior third continued 

 back to the spinnerets as a narrower and less di^dnct brown band, 

 and on the sides of it black and brown mottling? : sides brown and 

 whitish: renter blackish -brown behind the epigvnum. lung hooJa 

 bright yelloiK. epiijynwm black. Inferior spinnerets darker than 

 the superior. Chelicera and labium black with a brownish tinge. 

 wtaiilhr lighter. Legs distinctly annulated br^wn and blackish on 

 all joints, except the metatarsi Palpi ojloreil like the legs. 



Color in Alcohol, ^ ^ . — Cepkalotkorfjuc blackish, a broad sub- 

 marginal yellow band cnntinuoos posterioriy with that of the other 

 side, median band yellow; eve area dark, but forehead light. 

 Sternum in dark individuals black, in others black with yellow 

 spots, or dark-brown with a yellow median line. Abdomen above 

 blackish -brown mouled with minute yellowish dots, a yellow median 

 stripe ( margined by black) oa the anterior half and ending in a 

 p>int anterior to the middle, and behind it a series of 5-4> trans- 

 verse, broad yellowish arches extending to the spinnerets, each 

 edged broadly with black anterioriy, and each containing a pair of 

 small black dots: in some individuals these arches are very dis- 

 tinct, in others barely apparent, and they are clearer on alcoholic 

 than on living specimens ; sides streaked with brownish-yellow and 

 blackish: venter yellowish or brownish, sometimes with an indis- 

 tinct "iarker longitudinal band (or a pair of tiarker lines) behind 

 the epigynum. Lung books yellow. Epigunum yellowish with 

 brownii-red margins. Spinnerets yellow. Legs yellow, banded 

 more or less distinctly with brown. 



Color in AleohoL f f. — Like the 9. but da^er. Cephalo- 

 thorax black, the yellowish median band extending forward, some- 

 times little farther than the dorsal groove, sometimes neariy as far 

 as the posterior eyes, it is widest at its anterior end and ccmstricte«i 

 as in the S ; an indistinct vellowish subsiarrinal band is sometimes 



