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nerets are dark green, covered with black hairs. The abdomen 
has black hairs. The legs have a light yellow ground color. The 
coxa has two red lines near the upper margin of the joint and two 
black spots below the lowest line. The trochanter is covered with 
various sized black spots. There are two irregular red bands on 
the upper margin, while there are scattered over the surface of the 
joint from three to four irregular red dashes. The femur is orange 
yellow with an irregular red band both at the upper and lower 
margin of the joint, the surface of the joint having only two black 
spots and those placed at the base of the spines. The tibia is 
yellow gray with dark gray spots and an irregular red band both 
at the upper and lower margins of the joint. The metatarsus is 
also yellow gray with dark gray spots and an irregular orange and 
red band on the lower margin of the joint. The tarsus is dark 
yellow gray. The joints of the legs with the exception of the coxa, 
trochanter and femur are covered with fine black hairs. The palpi 
have the same coloring as the legs, but lack the black spots, which 
are on all the trochanters. The spines on the legs are very black 
and long. 
The newly emerged Peucetia viridans are pale orange. Plate 
II B. Some of the young emerged and shed a coat after three 
days, while others emerged with the new coat on. Those which 
emerged and shed their coats in three days were orange yellow 
when they first appeared. After three days they acquired a more 
orange color. The eye space was dark brown, the cephalothorax 
a light yellow green ground color, the sides red shading into green 
and a dark brown spot on the upper half of the median surface 
and a dark brown median line which extended from the eye space 
to the ending of this dark brown median area. This dark line is 
the same as in the adult and is lost in the next moult and does not 
appear until the adult stage again. The abdomen is orange, shad- 
ing to orange red on the sides and to light yellow on the upper sur- 
face. There is a beginning of a light red folium of complicated 
inner pattern, looking like the construction of a Chinese pagoda. On 
each section of the pattern there were four little light colored pits, 
but the upper one had five. The palpi were dark gray, the coxe 
of the legs were dark gray, the rest of the joints of the legs were 
