60 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 



HABEOCESTUM CCECATUM Hentz. 

 Plate I, figui-e 42. Plate IV, figures 42, 42a, 42b. 



Syn.: 1845. Attus ccecatus H., Journal Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. V. 



1875. " " id., Coll. Arachn. Vfrit. by N. M. Hentz. Ed. 



by Burgess, Boston, p. 65. 



? . Total length 4.3 mm. Width of abdomen 1.7 mm. 



Cephalothorax: length 2; width 1.8; height .9. 



Legs, 3.6, 2.9, 4.4, 4. 



Cephalothorax moderately high; cephalic part much inchned. Ocular 

 area wider behind than in front. First row of eyes straight; middle 

 eyes sub-touching; lateral less than one-half as large as middle eyes, 

 separated from them by one-third their own diameter; eyes of second 

 row half way between lateral and dorsal eyes; dorsal eyes a little 

 smaller than lateral eyes. Clypeus retreating, two thirds as high as 

 middle eyes. Anterior coxte separated by fully the width of the 

 labium. 



Coloration: Cephalothorax black, with gray hairs above anterior eyes. 

 Clypeus bright red. Abdomen black, more or less covered with 

 whitish hairs, with a cvirved transverse white band, behind which are 

 a white, diamond-shaped spot, tv,^o short, longitudinal, white bands 

 on the sides, and two white dots near the apex. Falces, mouth- 

 parts, sternum, cox^ and venter brown, aU with white hairs except- 

 ing the mouthparts. Femur of the first leg black, with a short brush of 

 black hairs at distal end; patella and tibia covered with white hairs; 

 metatarsus and tarsus brown; other legs dark brown with some 

 white hairs; patella of the third with an elevation on the upper sur- 

 face at the distal end; tibia of the third with a short projection 

 which extends over the metatarsus. 

 Distinguished from H. cornatum by the projection on the tibia of the third 



leg. 



Habitat: Pennsylvania, New York, Alabama. 



HABEOCESTUM VIEIDIPES Hentz. 

 Plate I, figure 4:3. Plate IV, figures 43, 43a. 



Syn.: 1845. AiTV^ viridipes H. Jour. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., Vol. V. 

 1875. " " id., Coll. Arachn. Writ, by N. M. Hentz. 



Ed. by Burgess, Boston, p. 66. 

 fi. Total length 4.8 mm. Width of abdomen 1.8 mm. 

 Cephalothorax: length 2.3; width 1.8; height 1.4. 



