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Body rounded beliind, wliitisli, a dorsal fuscous vitta continued 

 from the clypeus to the cloaca, and obsoletely punctured with 

 whitish, a few submarginal, obsolete, irregular lines or spots ; 

 granules dense, obtuse, not prominent; ocular peduncle promi- 

 nent, contracted at base, slightly muricated before, obsoletely 

 granulated ; clypeus not elevated ; palpi rather long, robust ; 

 second, third, and fourth joints pectinated on the exterior edge 

 with acute, distant spines; fifth joint more densely pectinated 

 on the inner edge : feet armed with minute distant spines ; coxae 

 blackish ; pectus with distant very distinct, obtuse granules ; 

 radical supports of the feet with a moniliform line each side in 

 the incisures ; venter nearly glabrous, granules indistinct : ter- 

 gum not deflected. 



Length of the female one-fifth of an inch. 



Very similar in color to the preceding, but sufficiently distinct 

 by the spinulose palpi, &e. 



3. P. NIGRUM. — Body ovate, blackish : clypeus [67] prom- 

 inent; radical joint of the three anterior pairs of feet armed with 

 a spine ; pectus and base of the feet white. 



Inhabits the Southern States. 



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Body ovate, a little dilated each side behind the posterior feet, 

 blackish, with a few obsolete paler spots, above and beneath 

 above granulated, granules spherical, irregularly placed in some- 

 what reticulated lines; ocular tubercle destitute of spines, with 

 obtuse granules ; clypeus pr ominent, somewhat elevated ; feet 

 short, fuscous, whitish at base ; second pair hardly four times as 

 long as the body, and, with the first pair, armed with a prominent, 

 cylindric, obtuse spine behind the basal joint; third pair with a 

 similar spine before; pectus whitish; venter blackish. 



Length, female nearly one-fifth of an inch. 



A very distinct species, and not uncommon in the Carolina's 

 and Georgia. 



4. P. GRANDis [GRANDE]. — Body oval, covered with short 

 spines ; ocular tubercle spinous ; feet rather short. 



Inhabits the Southern States. 

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Body oblong-oval, scabrous, with approximated, robust, short, 



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