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The male is 5 nun. long with the cephalothorax .'! mm. long. 

 The colors are bright and the markings of the hack sharply defined. 

 The first legs are light, transparent f;reen, and the other light portions 

 pale fawn color. The. green fades entirely in alcohol. The top of 

 the head covering the whole area between the eyes is orange 

 brown, and the dark markings are dark brown, almost black. The 

 pattern can best be seen in the figures. The front legs have a 

 narrow stripe of fawn color on the upper side dividing the green, 

 the other legs and palpi are fawn color, broken along the sides by 

 dark scales, forming parts of rings at the ends of the joints. The 

 three inner spines of the front tibia are dark colored and flattened 

 and two of them are long and spatulate, showing distinctly beyond 

 the hairs. The patella of the third leg is widened and flattened 

 and has a black and white eye spot and a black border under the 

 eye spot, and just over the. joint is a spine slightly turned up at 

 the end. When the third legs are drawn up in the usual standing 

 position, the modified patella? show in front over the head. The 

 face below the eyes is for a short distance dark brown and below 

 this white. The mandibles are also white on the front. 



The female is slightly larger than the male, but the cephalothorax 

 smaller. The color is dull orange brown, at first sight uniform, but 

 showing indistinctly the same light and dark pattern as the male. 



The males mature about the first of May and the females a little 

 later. The females are usually found under stones and the males 

 moving about in dry paths in the woods in Hyde Park and Sharon, 

 Mass. It has been found at several places across the country as 

 far as California. 



Pellenes roseus. 



Attus roseus, Hentz. Journal Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1846. (Plate 

 XII, figure 4.) 



Male 4 mm. lonfj, cephalothorax 2 mm. Neither the first or 

 third legs are modified or ornamented. The cephalothorax and the 

 front of the abdomen are bluish white and covered with fine short 

 scales. The rest of the back of the abdomen is light pink, with 

 a metallic lustre. The legs and palpi are thinly covered with white 

 scales, and the color is modified by dark hairs and the yellow of the 

 skin. The face and mandibles are covered with white scales, the 

 mandibles indistinctly striped with black. 



The female is the same size as the male and resembles the female 

 of splendens. The cephalothorax is covered with light gray scales 

 mixed with darker hairs. The abdomen is light fawn color and 



