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with short pubescence; face wide, head raised above the corselet, from which it is sepa- 
rated by a deep suture, which strongly delineates caput from corselet. A bright yellow’ 
ribbon girdles the edge of the corselet, which for the rest is a reddish brown, more or less 
decided in various specimens. The cordiform sternum is longer than wide, has decided 
sternal cones; is rather heavily pubescent; color dark brown, with median band of yellow, 
which is broadened into a rhomboid figure at the middle, and in front is yellow; labium 
large, subtriangular, and has a yellow tip like the maxille, which are rounded, and as wide 
as long, or even wider. 
Eyrs: Fig. la. The quad on an elevated prominence; narrower in front than behind, 
longest at the sides; MF separated by about 1.5 diameter; MR longer, and separated by 
about one diameter; side eyes on decided tubercles, almost contingent, almost equal in 
size; MF separated from SF by more than twice their alignment, and about once their 
alignment from margin of clypeus; front row shorter than rear and recurved, rear row 
procurved. 
Lees: 1, 4,3 2; color from dark brown to yellow, the final joints being brighter. 
The femur has a wide median annulus, and the joints are tipped with darker color; well 
armed with short hairs and stout bristles, arranged in longitudinal rows, Underneath, on 
the femora particularly, the skin is extremely rugose, an effect produced by the elevated 
bases of the stumpy spinelike hairs. Palps colored as the legs; mandibles strong and well 
rounded at the base, but not projecting beyond the face. 
Apspomen: Rectangular ovate, flattened or even hollowed. on the dorsum, except in 
gravid females; a series of thornlike conical spines set around the edges, of which the 
basal are shorter than the middle, and those on the apical corners are double; immediately 
beneath each of the latter is a shorter spine; color usually bright yellow, with a row of 
four circular black pits on the base, two large ones at the middle, and others, again, on 
the posterior; the bases of spines dark brown or red, deepening into black at the sharp 
points; skin glossy, hard, sparsely pubescent. The sides are rugose, streaked with about 
four longitudinal rows of yellow, alternating with brown bands, and thickly covered with 
short hairs, with brown circular pits. The spinnerets are so far underneath the abdomen 
as to give it a conical or pyramidal shape; are dark brown or blackish; venter pattern 
yellow, mottled with brown; the epigynum (Fig. 2a) is dark brown in color, tipped with 
yellow, with a prominent scapus, wide at the base and narrowing to a rounded spooned 
tip. The specimens of this spider vary much in color, apparently according to age. In 
some the head and dorsum of the corselet are orange yellow, with a median band of 
brown, and a broad circular belt of brown next below and adjoining the marginal band of 
yellow; the legs, in such specimens, become yellow, with brown annuli, not only at the 
ends of the joints but in the middle thereof. The dorsal spines also differ in length, and 
the abdomen varies slightly in color. Where specimens have been long in alcohol the 
circular pits or spots above alluded to appear in marked prominence, and are arranged 
laterally across the dorsum and between the apical spines, and again in rows’ passing from 
the dorsum to the spinnerets, underneath the venter. 
Disrrizurion: I haye collected along the entire Atlantic Coast of the United States, 
and in the Middle States. It inhabits the Gulf States, and probably the entire region east 
of the Rocky Mountains. 
No. 68. Acrosoma reduvianum (Watckenarr). Plate XXIH,- Figs. 6, 7. 
1887. Plectana reduviana, WAucKENAER. Ins. Apt., ii, 201; Appor, G. 8. No.  - 
1850. petra mitrata, Hentz ..... Je Bi Si, Vi 225 Idi, Spy.U. S., p. 12; xiv. 11. 
1884. Acrosoma mitrata, Emerton. . . N. E. Ep., p. 37, xxxviil., 9. 
1888. <Acrosoma reduviana, McCook . . Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. p. 5. 
1889. Acrosoma reduvianum, Marx , . Catalogue, p. 540. 
Frematn: Body length, 5 mm.; abdomen, 4 mm. long, 8 mm. wide; cephalothorax, 
1.5 mm, to 2mm. long, and 1 to 1.8 mm. wide. Specimens differ in size. The above measure- 
ments are taken from one of the largest females. 
