No. 2.] SPIDERS OF THE MARPTUSA GROUP. 97 



baud of snowy white. The first legs and the falces are black 

 and somewhat iridescent, like the cephalic plate. The falces 

 are well covered with black hairs, and, as they project a little 

 forward, they are visible from above. The palpi and the 

 second, third and fourth pairs of legs are light brownish- 

 yellow, with white hairs. The mouth parts are black ; the 

 sternum coxae and venter are light brown, the venter being 

 marked, more or less distinctly, with three darker longitudinal 

 lines. 



We have three females from Port of Spain, Trinidad, sent 

 to us by Mr. W. E. Broadway. In the shape of the cephalo- 

 thorax it is much like Epinga chapoda, although the slope 

 from the dorsal ej^es to the posterior border is not so unbroken 

 and gradual a curve, as the second half falls a little more 

 abruptly than the first half, looking something like Breda. In 

 ornata the curve is smooth and unbroken, but is shorter than 

 in chapoda or barbarica. 



DEZA GEN. NOV. 



Spiders rather long and narrow, with sides nearly parallel. 

 First legs stout and dark colored. 



The cephalothorax is rather low. The cephalic and tho- 

 racic parts are flat, and are on the same plane. The sides are 

 nowhere parallel, but are only slightly dilated, the widest point 

 being just in front of the third row of e3'es, so that both the sec- 

 ond and the third rows are narrower than the cephalothorax. 

 The sides contract \gt:j- gradually behind, the narrowest point 

 being at the posterior end. The abdomen is no wider than the 

 cephalothorax and is cylindrical, the \vhole appearance being 

 long and graceful, although not especiallj^ slender. The quad- 

 rangle of the eyes is only one-sixth wider than long, is Avider 

 in front than behind, and occupies nearly one-half of the ce- 

 phalothorax. The anterior eyes are close together, in a straight 

 row, and are prominent, especially the middle ones, which stand 

 out conspicuously when the spider is looked at from above. 

 The middle are more than twice as large as the lateral. The 

 second row is nearer the first than the third row. The dorsal 



