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band and having another white band down the middle of the 

 back, from a point in front of the middle, to the spinnerets. 

 The spinnerets are black, covered, in some specimens, with 

 white hairs. The legs are black, and not at all hairy. The 

 femoral joints of the third and fourth have a pale ring around 

 the middle. The clypeus is covered with snow-white hairs. 

 The falces are black. 



.The cephalothorax of the female is brown, with a black 

 ring and a narrow white line around the margin. The hairs 

 on the thoracic part are reddish-yellow, not at all like the color 

 of the abdomen, while on the cephalic part they are somewhat 

 iridescent. There is a small central gray patch over the ante- 

 rior eyes. The abdomen is red, as in the male, but the curved 

 white band across the anterior end extends only half-way on 

 to the sides, the posterior sides having a blackish region upon 

 which is a large spot, and further back, a smaller spot of white 

 the two sometimes being connected. The central white band 

 either stops a little way behind the middle of the back or is 

 continued to the spinnerets by a series of fine white chevrons. 

 The legs are dark brown, the femoral joints all having a broad 

 pale ring around the middle. The palpi are brown, heavily 

 covered with gray hairs. The falces are dark brown overhung 

 by gray hairs which grow on the edge of the clypeus. 



The palpus of the male has the tibia very short and wide, 

 with a strong apophysis on the outer side. 



We have large numbers of both sexes from the eastern 

 part of Guatemala. 



HERACLEA SANGUINEA, SP. NOV. 



Of this species we have only the male which, although 

 running a little smaller than that of E. regin, is almost iden- 

 tical with it in appearance. The palpus, however, is different. 

 Our examples of sanguinea lack the white hairs on the 

 clypeus and the white patch above the first row of eyes, 

 and in some of them the central white band on the abdomen 

 takes the form of a slender herring-bone stripe. The legs are 



