106 BULLETIN OF WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOL. 4, NO. 3. 
This species resembles the preceding in size and habitus, but 
differs by its non-pilose body as well as by its differently formed 
legs and antennae. 
GONATOPUS VARIPES Sp. nOV. 
Female. Length 3 mm. Shining black ; the legs, except 
swollen parts of anterior femora and first two or three joints of 
antennae yellowish or brownish. Head flatter than usual, broadly 
concave above the antennae and deeply excavated on the vertex. 
Front highly polished, smooth except for a faint shagreened 
sculpture on the vertex and occiput. Front with a median line 
below the front ocellus to the base of the antennae. Face just 
above the antennae whitish pilose and microscopically transversely 
rugulose. Clypeus pale yellow, rounded in front. Mandibles 
whitish, with four dark teeth. Palpi pale. Antennae rather stout 
and short, barely as long as the thorax ; black, the scape and 
pedicel yellow and the first flagellar joint dark yellow with brown 
tip. Scape short, but strongly arcuate, pedicel three-fourths the 
length of the scape and a little more than half the length of the 
first flagellar joint; second flagellar joint two-thirds the length of 
the first, others slowly decreasing; last a little longer than the 
penultimate. Eyes bare. Thorax highly shining, microscopically 
shagreened, especially on the sides. Metathorax behind more 
coarsely shagreened or microscopically rugulose, but not acicu- 
lated. Pronotum without the transverse impression except a 
slight one very close to the anterior border. Anterior neck of 
posterior lobe irregularly longitudinally sculptured, the meta- 
thorax with no lateral tooth-like projections at the base. Abdomen 
very short and broad, clothed with a few long, thin, white hairs ; 
black, the surface shining. Legs beset with a few long pale hairs ; 
pale brownish-yellow, coxae included ; the basal two-thirds of the 
anterior femora black, and the four posterior tibiae tipped with 
darker brown. The femora are all rather short and thickened on 
almost the entire basal half. First and fourth joints of anterior 
tarsi about equal, the second two-thirds the length of the third, 
the two together equal to the fourth. Chelar claw slender, curved 
toward the tip ; chela reaching nearly to the base of second joint. 
Anterior trochanters with a short basal stalk. 
One specimen received from Dr. Brauns, labelled Salisbury, 
Mashonaland, G. A. K. Marshall. 
This is a pretty shining species, with conspicuously bicolored 
legs. 
