•3] 4 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts mid Lettirs. 



PELLEN'ES Simon. 1876. 



■Syn : 1850. Eiioplirys: sub. gen. Pales C. Koch, Uebers. cl. Arachn.-Syst., 

 5, p. 64. 



1869 Attiis Sim., Moaogr. d. especes Europ. de la fatn, d. Attides 



p. 14(24) (ad pirtem.) 



1870 " Thorell, On Europ. Spid. I., p. 218 (ad partem). 



1871 " Sim., Revis d. Attid. 



1876. Pellenes Sim., Arcahn. de France, III, p. 90. 



Cephalothorax rather long, high; thoracic part distinctly dilated, at least 

 a third the lor.ger; cephalic part sightly convex; inclined, limited 

 by a depression which is bent forward. 



Eyes of ihe face rather unequnl, forming a line which is straight or 

 slightly carved forward; the middle eyes but little separated; the 

 interval of the lateral eyes wider. Dorsal eyes a little smaller than 

 the lateral and fur!,her apart, since the sides of the quadrangle 

 diverge behind. Quan'rangle about a third wider than long. Dorsal 

 eyes further from one another than from the lateral borders. 



miypeus at least half as wide as the middle eyes. 



Stermum long; anterior thighs separated by the width of the lip and 

 thicker than the o;hers; the lateral almost equal, longer than wide. 



-Legs ( 5 ) 1, 3, 4, 2; ( ? D 8, 1, 4. 2; firot legs much the most robust, with com- 

 pressed femora; tibia and patella of the first shorter than the ceph- 

 alothorax; male, these two articulations equal; female, tibia a little the 

 longer, tarsus and metarsus more slender and shorter than the two 

 preceding articulations, almost equal. Femur, patella, and tibia of 

 the third much longer and a little thicker than the femur, patella 

 and tibia of the fourth; tarsus and metarsus of the fourth generally 

 a little shorter than the patella and tibia of the third strongly en- 

 larged, from the b.se of the extremity tibia; tibia of the fourth almost 

 "^ parallel or a littl? enlarged . Femoral, tibial and metatarsal spines 

 on the four pairs, very short, and serial on the tibiae and metatarsi 

 of the first and second; metatarsus of the fourth, with spines to 

 the base. 



Falces as long, or a little shorter than the face. Vertical or inclined back- 

 ward in both sexes. 



JPalpus ( $ ) robust and short; tarsus oval, wider and at least as long as the 

 two preceding; bulb generally simple, reaching almost the end of 

 the tarsus; tibia shorter than the patella, provided with a superior 

 external apophysis, directed forward, usually received into a little 

 depression of the tarsal border and hidden from above. 



