No. 1.] ATTID.E OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 63 



row of eyes. The legs and palpi are light colored, with white 

 hairs. 



We liave two males and several females from Reynosa and 

 Refugio, Mexico, sent to us bj^ Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend. 



HABEOCESTUM PARATUM, SP. NOV. 



Plate Y, figs. 8-8b. 



3'. Length, 5. Length of cephalothorax, 2.5; width of 

 cephalothorax, 1.8. 

 Legs, 1342 ; first pair much the stoutest. 



The clypeus is more than half as high as the large middle 

 eyes and slants backward. The falces are Aveak and vertical. 

 The thoracic part slopes very gradually for two-thirds of its 

 length. 



Our specimen is rather badly rubbed, but the coloring 

 seems to be as follows : The cephalothorax covered with hairs, 

 which are yellow on the cephalic plate, Avhite on the sides and 

 on the thoracic part, and bright red on the clypeus ; the ab- 

 domen covered with yellow hairs excepting for three large 

 white spots on the back and four oblic[uely elongated white 

 spots on each side. Under alcohol there appears another pair 

 of indistinct light-colored spots on the anterior part of the back. 

 The first legs are dark brown, the femur, patella and tibia all 

 being enlarged. On the inner edge of the tibia and the distal 

 two-thirds of the patella is a fringe of dark colored hairs. 

 The other legs are banded with lighter and darker brown. 

 The falces are dark brown and on the anterior face of each 

 are three slender longitudinal lines of white hairs. 



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

 mala. 



EUOPHRYS (c. KOCH). 

 Plate V, figs. 9-9b. 



The cephalothorax is moderatelj^ high, with the sides not 

 far from parallel, the thoracic part being but little wider than 



