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uaiTower yellow submaiginal line, finally a narrow hlack marginal 

 line. The eye region black. Sternum yellowish-brown with a 

 narrow brown margin, and a brown spearhead'shapecl mark 

 (composed of two converging dai-k lines) with the point directed 

 caudad. Abdomen above blackish, a narrow brown median band 

 terminating in a point before the middle, a white line at each 

 antero-laleral margin of the dorsum, and small white spots on the 

 posterior two-thirds of the dorsum arranged in two lines of 5-6 

 spots each, the most posterior in each line largest ; sides brown 

 above, below yellowish-brown streaked with white hairs; venter 

 with a broad brownish band extending the whole length and con- 

 taining indistinct darker dots. Lwig books yellow. Spinnerets 

 brown. Chelicera, maxillce and labium reddish-brown, the last 

 nenrly black at the base. Epigynwn reddish-bx-own. Lerjs pale 

 yellowish-brown with indistinct darker anuulations on the femora, 

 patellre and libise. 



Color in Alcohol, 9 9. — The ground color of the dorsum of the 

 abdomen greenish-brown, a yellow median band ending in a point 

 at the middle, on each side a row of about five elongated yellow 

 spots, becoming confluent at the spinnerets with its fellow of the 

 opposite side, and more laterally on each side a row of 4-5 minute 

 yellow spots; venter yellowish with a median and two pairs of 

 lateral confluent dark spots which do not extend to the spinnerets, 

 the more median rows longer and curved. Legs more or less 

 distinctly banded. 



Color in Alcohol, cTcf. — Cephalothorax as in the 9, hui sternum 

 sometimes without dark lines. Abdomen as in the 9. Legs clear 

 reddish-brown, femora yellowish proximally and ventrally, femora 

 and tibiae indistinctly banded. Palpi reddish-brown, tarsi darker. 

 Coloration otherwise as in the 9. 



Comparisons. — This species differs from 7^ elegans Stone mark- 

 edly in the structure of the epigynum and in the annulations of 

 the legs. From the other most nearly related form, P. insularis 

 Emerton, it diffei's in smaller size, in the coloration of the abdo- 

 men, and in the structure of the epigynum. 

 27. Pirata nigromaculatus n. sp. (PI. XXX, figs. 14,4').) 



(cT, 9, types, Harvey's Lake, Luzerne county. Pa., 8lonc Coll. 

 everal other specimens collected at the same place.) 



Ei/es. — First row nearly as broad as the second, ils lateral cye.s 



