Genera of the Famihj Attkke. 299 



Eyes: The first row rather strongly bent, the two middle eyes moderately 

 large, somewhat smaller thau is usuil, near together, the outer ones 

 in diameter scarcely half as large, placei somewhat away from the 

 middle eyes. The eyes of the third row nearly as large as the outer 

 eyes of the first row, on little hills; the eyes of the second row very 

 small, near to the outer eyes of the first ro w. 

 Mandibles stout, standing away from each other toward the extremity, 

 wrinkled transversely, somewliat shining; the fang nearly as long 

 as the upper part of the mandible, strong and bent. 

 Palpus: That of the female rather long, not stout, entirely of the custo- 

 mary shape, well covered with long hairs; the male palpus moder- 

 ately stout, shorter jointed, the tarsus oval, thick, bent, the bulb pro 

 jecting strongly in front. 

 The species belonging to this genus are all handsome, the mandibles of all 

 having more or less metallic reflections. The head is high, the sides 

 dilated with a short angular plate. The thorax is short and steeply slop 

 ing, in most examples, when not rubbed one notices upright brushes or 

 fringes of hair between the upper eyes. The abdomen is rather large in 

 the iemale. but in the ma e narrower than the cephalothorax. The spin- 

 nerets do not stand far forward. The legs are rather stout, the t^vo first 

 legs the longest, pdrticularly long in the male; the second and fourth 

 pairs are about eqaally loag, tlid fourth being a little the lo iger; the third 

 pair is the shortest. 



PHILJEUS Thorell 1870. Smox. 



Sijn.: 1837. Dendryphautes C. Koch, Uebers.d. Arachu, Syst., 1, p. 31 (ad 



partem). 



1837. Calliethera Id., ibid., p. 30 (ad partem). 



1846. Philid Id , Die Arachn., XIII, p. 54, 56. 



1846. Phidippus Id., ibid., p. 125 (ad partem). 



1846. Plexippus Id., ibid., p. 93 (ad partem). 



1869. Attus Sim., Monogr. d. Attid , p. 6 (16), 14 (24) (ad partem). 



1869. Dendrypliantes Id., ibid., p. 168 (634), (ad partem). 



1870. PhilaMis Thorell, on Europ. Spid., I, p. 217 ( 5 ). 

 1870. Attus Id., ibid., p. 218 ( f ). 



1876. Philseus Sim., Arachn de France, III, p. 45. 



1877. "■ Ke\serling, Spinnen aus Uruguay. Vienna, 1877 



78. p. 617. 



1878. "■ Lebert, Die Spinnen derSchweiz, p. 305. 



1879. " L. Koch, Arachniden Austra liens, p. 1080. 



1880. " Karsch, Arachnol. Blatter VIII, Zur Kenntniss der 



attitden, in Zeitsch, f. d. Naturwissensch, LIII, 

 p. 397. 



