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a red band near the upper margin oi the joint, the femur ol the first 

 two legs was yellow green with graj at the upper margin, and a 

 large black splotch .it the lower margin on the side; the femur ol 

 the last two legs is the same color but lacks the black spots; the 

 tibia, metatarsus and tarsus arc yellow gra) with darker gray 

 green at the upper and lower margins oi each joint. From now on 

 until the last moult there was no change. At the last moult the sex 

 oi the spiders appeared and the color pattern was completely 

 formed, rhough the young with the complete color pattern were 

 not as bright and brilliant as the mother caught with the eggs, yet 

 (he\ would \er\ hkei\ improve with age. 1 he color pattern ol 



this form was the hardest to follow .\nA understand. At each moult 

 it seemed to he a process such as is necessary in the reproduction 

 ol a colored plate, one eolor placed o\\ top ot the other until the 

 final whole is obtained. 



A female Peuc* . - with vu^s was collected in the early 



summer (Jul) 1st) ow a squash vine, (Plate MIA The female 

 was colored differently from the one just described above, and also 

 different from the one described by Comstock, yet this one is identi- 

 fied h\ Banks as belonging to this ^enus ,\\\A speeies. The eephalo 

 thorax ot the adult was a light \ellow green with a silver eye 

 spaee. I here were two black lines o\\ the lower margin ot the 

 cephalothorax. The abdomen is a dark brown green ground color, 

 with a band ot light green ow either side ol the median line near 

 the upper margin. Near the middle ot the abdomen are two white 

 spots. A light brown triangular pattern is found in the median 

 line near the upper margin. The legs and palpi have a light 

 green coxa m\A trochanter, an orange lemur and a yellow tibia, the 

 metatarsus and tarsus with a green band both at the upper .\n<\ 

 lower margin ol each joint. I he trochanter is flecked with black 

 spot s. I he legs are covered with strong spines. I he spinnerets 

 are dark brow n. 



I he young emerged alter two weeks .\\\A were dark brown, the 



abdomen being darker than the legs -\^u\ eephalothorax. At this 



time there was no semblance in the young to the adult in either 



shape oi bod) or color. The first moult occurred in one week 



The shape ot the bod) had changed to the elongate abdomen m\A 



