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base, broadest in the middle, and pointed behind. Legs rather long, pale 

 yellowish, anterior tibiae rather more reddish, all with long hairs, no spines 

 under tibia or metatarsus i, one under metatarsus 11 near middle, hind pairs 

 with many spines; i pair rather short, iv pair longest. The abdomen de- 

 pressed, nearly twice as long as broad, truncate at base where there are many 

 long hairs; blackish, with a black basal spear-mark, and each side of it a 

 few pale dots, and behind are several pale chevrons. Venter blackish, with 

 two submedian pale lines reaching spinnerets. Palpal organ moderately 

 long, a long blunt projection from the tibia over the tarsus. 



One specimen, Santa Rosa Island, July (Eisen). 

 Herpyllus angustus n. sp. 



Plate XL, Fig. 43. 



Cephalothorax rather bright yellowish brown, margin black, mandibles 

 and sternum similar; legs rather paler, except the femora, especially the 

 anterior pair, are much darker, all with long black hair; abdomen black 

 above and below, above with fine white hair. Cephalothorax rather slender, 

 head narrow; legs thick and stout, especially leg i, tibiae i and 11 with one 

 spine at tip beneath, metatarsi i and 11 with a pair near base, a spine at base 

 of tibia III above, none on tibia iv above, but 2-2-2 below, about four very 

 stout spines above on each femur, scopulas moderately dense; sternum 

 slender, considerably narrowed in front, pointed behind; abdomen truncate 

 at base with a dense crest of black hair, depressed, and about twice as long 

 as broad; lower spinnerets very large and prominent; male palpi short. 

 Posterior eye-row straight, longer than the front row, P. M. E. round, about 

 diameter apart, and a little closer to the equal P. S. E. ; anterior eye-row 

 straight, A. M. E. close together, and almost touching the slightly larger 

 A. S. E., S. E. more than diameter apart. 



Length 6 mm. 



One male from San Pedro (Cockerell). 



Herpyllus calif or nicus Banks. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 

 1904, p. no. 



Described from Lakeside, California. 



Herpyllus validus Banks. Plate xxxix, Figs. 25 and 29. 

 Banks, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 1896, p. 62. 



Described from Los Angeles; also seen from Clare- 

 mont (Baker). 



Callilepis insularis Banks. Can. Entom. 1900, p. 97. 



Described from Guadeloupe Island, off California, 

 June. 



