252 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
ARANEA COMPSA,! sp. Nov. 
Plate 19; ‘fig. '6. 
Carapace black excepting the anterior region of the head about the 
eye-area which is abruptly lighter, pale brown; the pale color extend- 
ing farther caudad on lower side of head clothed with long grey or 
white hair. Sternum black with a bright yellow medign longitudinal 
stripe which is interrupted across its anterior portion. Labium and 
endites black, pale across tips. Legs with femora pale yellow-brown 
proximally, the distal half -blackish; patellae black; tibiae black 
excepting for a light annulus at the middle; metatarsi and tarsi pale 
with no distinct black annuli or metatarsus black at extreme distal 
end. Abdomen brownish grey; venter, anterior face and a broad 
band reaching back across each anterolateral corner and along side 
black. A series of yellow dots and marks on each side between black 
of venter and that of side; dorsum covered with a broad folium-mark 
a little darker than adjacent parts, the folium embracing a narrow 
median stripe limited by whitish marks and extending over entire 
length and marked with light colored paired transverse lines each side 
of this middle stripe, especially caudad. 
Posterior row of eyes decidedly recurved; median eyes three fourths 
their diameter apart and two and a half or a little more their diameter 
from the laterals. Lateral eyes on each side contiguous, moderately 
elevated. Anterior row of eyes clearly recurved; median eyes a 
little smaller than the posterior medians, more than their diameter 
apart (once and a half), nearly two and a half times their diameter 
from the laterals. Area of median eyes nearly equal in length and 
breadth or slightly wider; wider in front than behind in ratio 11: 10. 
Thorax of typical form, smooth, without processes; head narrow; 
groove transverse, not profound. 
Labium with distal end triangular. 
Sternum about six sevenths as wide as long, constricted to a narrow, 
distally rounded tongue behind. 
Upper margin of furrow of chelicera with four teeth; lower margin 
with three. 
Legs strongly aculeate, the spines long and slender, all joints ex- 
cepting the tarsi being well armed. 
1 kouyos, pretty. 
