No. 1.] ATTID.E OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 23 



the spinnerets, the spots of the two longitudinal rows thus 

 formed being connected by a brownish band. 



The female is much like the male. There seem to be no 

 hairs on the clypeus. On the anterior part of the eye-region 

 are some light-colored slightly iridescent hairs with violet 

 reflections. If our males ever had any such hairs they have 

 been entirely rubbed away. The abdomen has two pairs of 

 large brown spots just behind the middle, each of which is 

 edged with white. 



We have two males and one female from Panama, sent to 

 us by Count Keyserling. 



AMYCUS HIEROGLYPHICUS, SP. NOV. 



Plate I, figs. 4-4c. 



^ . Length, 6. Length of cephalothorax, 2.5 ; width of 



cephalothorax, 2. 

 9. Length, 5.5. Length of cephalothorax, 2.3; width of 

 cephalothorax, 1.8. 

 Legs, S 3142, ? 8124. 



This, the fourth species having a long white palpus, is 

 small and light colored, likefallax, but is ornamented, in both 

 sexes, with red hairs around the eyes, which are lacking in that 

 species. 



The quadrangle of the eyes is nearly equall}^ wide in front 

 and behind, and occupies more than half of the cephalothorax. 

 The first row is curved, but not so strongly as in the related 

 species. The middle eyes are plainly more than twice as large 

 as the lateral. The second row is nearer the first than the 

 third. The cWpeus of the male is much lower than in fallax, 

 being scarcely higher than the large middle eyes. In the 

 female, on the contrai'y, it is rather higher than in the female 

 of fallax, being about three-fourths as high as the large eyes. 

 The falces in the male are long, vertical and parallel, with a 

 long pointed tooth at the end, on the inner corner. In the 

 female they are much shorter, without any tooth. 



