No. 1.] ATTIDJ': OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 47 



a blackish region, Avhich is crossed by two larger white spots. 

 The palpus is yellow, rather thickly covered with white hairs. 

 The legs are yellow, with short brownish hairs. 



We have a single female from the eastern part of Guate- 

 mala. 



Although this species differs Irom the others of this genus 

 in having the first row of eyes straight and the quadrangle 

 occupying half of the cephalothorax, it closely resembles them 

 in general shape, and in the pattern on the abdomen. 



DENDRYPHANTES (c. koch). 

 Plate TV, figs. 3-3b. 



Spiders varying from small to above medium size. 



The cephalothorax is from moderately high to high. The 

 cephalic plate is usually level in the posterior half, but is in- 

 clined in front. Behind the dorsal eyes the cephalothorax is 

 either level or else slopes more or less, in the first part of the 

 thorax, and then falls abruptly. The sides diverge a little from 

 the first row of eyes, but are only a little wider than the third 

 row at that place. Behind the dorsal eyes they are plainty 

 widened out. The anterior eyes form a curved row, the lateral 

 b)eing more than one-half as large as the middle and separated 

 from them. The second row is nearer the first than the third. 

 The quadrangle of the eyes is one-third wider than long, is 

 wider behind than in front, and occupies from two-fifths to 

 nearly one-half of the cephalothorax. 



The species of Dendryphantes that we have from Central 

 America are nitidus, lietabilis, hondurensis, dubitabilis and centralis, 

 described below ; ruber P., described under the genus Philseus 

 in our paper on New Genera and Species of Attidmfrom Guate- 

 mala, Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Wis., Dec. 1885, p. 66, and capi- 

 iatus Hentz, described in Spiders of United States, and also in our 

 paper on North American Attidse. 



Of these, nitidus is much larger than any of the others. 

 The males of nitidus, Isetabilis and ruber are easily distinguished 



