Att'uhe of North Auienica. 63 



on the posterior region black. Falces and moutliparts dark brown. 

 Sternum and coxaj light brown. Legs brownish riifus. Venter 

 covered with grayish hair. 

 Habitat: New York, Connecticut, Alabama. 



HABROCESTUM AURATUM Hentz. 



Plate I, figure 4(Ja. Plate IV, figures 40, 46a, 46b. 



Syn: 1845. Attus auratum H., Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. V. 



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



Burgess, Boston, p. 66. 



i . Total length 5 mm. Width of abdomen 1.9 mm. 



Cephalothorax: length 2.8: Avidth 1.8; height 1. 



Legs 4, 3.8, 5.8, 4.2; patella and tibia of the first, 1.8; patella and tibia of the 

 third, 2.1; patella and tibta of the fourth, 1.6; metatarsus and tarsvis 

 of the fourth, 1.6. 



? . Total length 6.4 mm. Width of abdomen 3 mm. 



CephalothorEix: length 3.2; width 2.2; height 1.1. 



Legs 4.5, 4.8, 6.2, 4.8; patella and tibia of the first, 2; patella and tibia of the 

 third, 2.4; patella and tibia of the fourth, 1.9; metatarsus and, tarsus 

 of the fourth, 1.9. 



Cephalothorax moderately high, 2 less convex than $, ; cephalic part in 

 clined more in $ than in ? . Ocular area e ^ually wide in front and 

 behind. Fu'st row of eyes straight, middle eyes sub-touching; lateral a 

 httle less than one-half middle eyes, separated from them by ( ? ) one- 

 third their ovn\ diameter, ( <3 ) scarcely so much; eyes of second row- 

 very shghtly nearer lateral than dorsal eyes, dorsal as large as lateral- 

 eyes. Clypeus two-thnds as high as middle eyes, retreating. An- 

 terior coxse sepai'ated by scarcely the ■width of the labium. 



Coloration: $ . Cephalothorax covered with short black hairs Avhich are 

 intermingled with others of a yellowish brown color, these latter 

 being by far the most numerous in the eye region and giving to that 

 part its predominating tint. Three white bands come up on to 

 the caput from the interspaces in the first row of eyes; the central 

 one of these terminates behind the middle of the eye region; the lat- 

 eral ones pass just above the small median eyes, surround the dorsal 

 eyes and on the thoracic i:)art curve first toward, and then away 

 from each other, terminating at the posterior border. Around the 

 lower margui is a black Ime, and just above this a band of white. 

 Abdomen black encircled by a wide wliite band and having a central 

 longitudiual white band wliich ends a little in front of the spinnerets. 

 Clypeus and falces blackish brown, clypeus sparsely covei-ed with 



