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dovnen light drab in front, blackish behind, with two transverse 

 bands of white hairs. First and second pairs of legs bright 

 reddish-brown, darkened on the anterior surface ; third and 

 fourth pairs with a black longitudinal line on the front face of 

 femur, patella and tibia. Coxae pale. Sternum black. Venter 

 brown, with a large, triangular, white spot behind the epigy- 

 num. Palpi pale. Falces and mouth parts reddish-brown. 

 Habitat. Europe. 



SYXAGELES ALBOTRIMACUI.ATUS LUC, 1846. 



9 . Total length, 4 mm. 



Cephalothorax : Length, 1.5 ; width, .8 ixim. 

 Legs broken in our specimen. In the figure of Lucas 

 they seem to be, as is common in Synageles, 4123. 



Cephalothorax flat, moderately high. Quadrangle of eyes 

 very little longer than wide, equally wide in front and behind, 

 occupjang three-fifths of the cephalothorax. Anterior eyes in 

 a very slightly curved row, subtouching ; the middle less than 

 twice as large as the lateral. Second row nearer the first than 

 the third row. Third row as wide as the cephalothorax at that 

 place. Falces short, vertical, parallel, weak. Lip wider than 

 long. Coxae i separated by the width of the lip. Sternum 

 oval. Pedicle short. 



Color. Cephalothorax black or very dark brown, with a 

 small, median, white spot behind the dorsal eyes. Abdomen 

 black, glistening, with a transverse row of three white sjDots 

 across the anterior part, the central spot being the largest. 

 Legs (only the second, third and fourth pairs being left in our 

 specimen), with the femoral joints reddish, while the other 

 joints are yellowish, testaceous, with longitudinal black lines 

 running along both anterior and posterior faces. Palpi yel. 

 lowish. Falces brown. Venter and sternum black. Coxae 

 and mouth parts light testaceous. 



Habitat. Algiers. 



Lucas, in describing and figuring this spider, gives only 

 the two lateral white spots on the abdomen. He describes the 

 first pair of legs as stouter than the others, and darker in color, 



