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illse long and diverging. Coxte i almost touching. Abdomen 

 with a constriction in front of the middle. First leg much 

 enlarged. 



Bellota is near Paradamoetas and Descanso. 



BELLOTA FORMICINA TACZ., 1879. 



Araneides du Perou, p. 367. 



PI. v., Fig. 5, male; 5a, face and falces; 5b, side of cephalo- 

 thorax ; 5c and 5d, male palpus. 

 S . Total length, 3 mm. 



Cephalothorax : Length, 1.5 mm.; width, 1 mm. 

 Legs, 1432 ; 1st much the stoutest ; the femur, patella 

 and tibia all being enlarged. 



The falces are small, short and vertical. The sternum is 

 deep-set, pointed in front and behii^d. The abdomen has a 

 deep constriction, behind which it is Avidened and rounded. 



Color. The cephalothorax is reddish-brown, covered on 

 the tipper surface with greenish-yellow down. The abdomen is 

 olive-brown, covered with iridescent scales, and having a white 

 band around the constriction. The first leg has the femur, 

 patella and tibia black, the other joints white ; in the second 

 all the joints are white, excepting a black line on the anterior 

 face of the tibia ; the third is like the second, excepting that 

 the line extends on to the patella and the femur ; the fourth is 

 black, excepting the patella and the tarsus, which are white. 



Habitat. Venezuela. Peru. 



SEMORA N. 



Cephalothorax not high, flat above, widest at dorsal eyes, 

 narrowing plainly in front and behind. Thoracic part falling 

 rather steeply after the first half, the posterior slope being 

 very slightly concave. Quadrangle of eyes one-fifth wider 

 than long, plainly wider behind than in front, occupying a 

 little less than half of cephhlothorax. Anterior eyes in a 

 straight row, all touching ; middle twice as large as lateral. 

 Second row a little nearer the first than the third row. 

 Dorsal eyes scarcely so large as the lateral, but prominent, 



