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broken into two spots. The legs are dark or light gray, without 

 any distinct markings. The male palpi are smaller than in 

 pulcx, though the males are larger. Pa/itstris lives on plants 

 and makes nests among the leaves. 



Saitis pulex. — This is one of the smallest of the family. It 

 is about a sixth of an inch long, sometimes even smaller. The 

 colors are various 

 shades of gray like 

 the ground, and 

 when still it is 

 hard to lind, but 

 it is an active 

 spider and exposes 

 itself by jumping 

 in open places. 

 The cephalotho- 

 rax is half longer 

 than wide, longer 

 and narrower than 

 in Habrocestum 

 and Attus. The 

 abdomen is usu- 

 ally shorter than 

 the cephalothorax 

 and wider (figs. 

 I20, I2i). The 

 cephalothorax has a large light-colored triangle in the middle, 

 covering the head between the eyes in front and ending in a point 

 behind. In alcohol this spot disappears, especially in the males, 

 and the head appears black between the eyes and light behind 

 and at the sides. The front half of the abdomen has a light 

 middle stripe, lightest at the edges and darker gray in the 

 middle. Behind this is a transverse white spot nearly the 



Figs. 122, 123. Habrocestum auratum. — 122, male. 

 123, female. Roth enlarged eight times. 



