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anterior margin which extends on to the sides, a shoi't oblique white 

 Une on each side at the termination of this band, and posterior to 

 these lines, on each side a semi-circular band, white; the dorsum has, 

 on the anterior part, four indented dots, and on the posterior part, 

 opposite the oblique lines one pair of short transverse white lines like 

 those of the S ; the mouthparts and falces are black, the sternum 

 and coxse dark brown; the venter is brown with a central longitudi- 

 nal white band; the legs are light brown excepting the femoral, jiatel- 

 lary, and tibial joints of the first pair, which are black. 

 Habitat: Mexico, Guatemala. (South Carolina, Georgia, Walckenaer.) 



PHILx^US PRINCEPS Peckham. 



Plate in, figure 21. 



Sy7i.: 1883. Attus princeps P., Descr. new or little known Attidee of 

 U. S., p. 18. 



2 . Total length 8 . 1 m^m. Width of abdomen 3 mm. 



Cephalotliorax: length, 3.9; width, 3.2; height, 2. 



Legs 7.1, 5.9, 6, 7.5; patella and tibia of the first, 3.4; patella and tibia of 

 the thu'd, 2; patella and tibia of the fourth, 2.6; metatai'sus and tar- 

 sus of the fourth, 2.4. 



Ocular area nearly twice as wide as long, and much wider behind; anterior 

 row a little curved, the eyes composing it being unusually small, the 

 lateral about one-half as large as the middle, and separated from 

 them by nearly two-thirds their own diameter; dorsal almost as large 

 as lateral eyes, and further from each other than from the lateral 

 borders. Clyi^eus, one-third as high as middle eyes. Falces as wide 

 as the first row of eyes, nearly twice as long as the face, vertical, 

 slightly diverging. Maxillae parallel, enlarged and blunt at ex- 

 tremity, slanting on the inner edge to the labium: labium less than 

 one-half as long as maxillfe, as wide as long, a little contracted and 

 truncated at tip. Sternum deep set, small, one-half longer than wide, 

 Avidest in the middle. Anterior coxee separated by less than the 

 width of the labium. Relative length of legs, 4, 1, 3, 2. 



Coloration: ? . Cephalothorax dark rufus, covered with short yellowish 

 white hairs, and having some long black hairs on the eye region; 

 abdomen covered with coarse tawny and gray hairs, with a whitish 

 band at base, and two gray spots, one on eitlier side of the middle 

 point of the dor.sum. Clypeus with thick white hairs; falces darkly 

 iridescent; mouthparts brown; maxillaj tipped with white; sternum 

 black; venter with gi-ayisli yellow hairs; legs, palpi, and spinnerets 

 bright reddish brown, the legs and palpi witli wliite hairs. 



Habitat: Pennsvlvania. 



