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except on a black band which surrounds the disk, a yellow 
band at base, extending each side, but which does not reach 
the middle, one large yellow dot each side near the middle, 
two little dots on the disk, and four terminal abbreviated 
bands white ; beneath blackish, abdomen with some yellowish 
hair which form two or four sub-obsolete, abbreviated, longi- 
tudinal lines ; feet, T. 1. 2. 3. 
Observations. This very distinctly-marked species is 
probably very rare, as it occurred only once. 
Habitat. North Carolina. June. 
26. ATTUS NIGER. 
Plate XXI. Fig. 19. 
Description. Deep black ; legs pale testaceous, 4. 1. $3 
Observations, This small species is remarkable on account 
of its activity in running and leaping. 
Habitat. North Carolina. 
27. ATTUS? GRACILIS. 
` Plate XXI. Fig. 20. 
Description. Rufous; cephalothorax very prominent an- 
enoly ; Wider behind the middle ; abdomen narrower, slender, 
fusiform, nipples long ; feet long and slender, 4. 1. 3. 2. 
bservations. This cannot be Synemosyna scorpionia ; 
but may ultimately be referred to that division. 
abitat. Alabama. August. 
j Ue IV, Merron ; legs sub-equal in thickness, the 
ourth longest, then the third. — 
25. ATTUS LEOPARDUS. — 
Plate XXI. Fig. 21. 
Description, Cephalothorax black, rufous about the eyes, 
