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face of the enlarged part is pale and on it is a small black spine. 
This is evidently in the nature of an ornament since it is used 
in display during courtship. The clypeus and the front of the 
fakes are covered with thick snow-white hairs. The palpi are 
brown with white hairs. 
In the female the body is nearly covered with a mixture of 
white and fawn-colored hairs with longer black hairs over them. 
The fawn-color predominates everywhere excepting on the sides 
and thoracic part of the cephalothorax, which are nearly white. 
There are two oblique black bands on each side of the abdomen. 
The clypeus is thickly covered with brownish white hairs. The 
fakes have only a few white hairs. We have numerous examples 
from Wisconsin. 
Pellenes hrunncus, n. 
PI. I, fig. 2. 
cT. Length, 5 mm. Legs, 3142. 
Quadrangle of eyes a trace wider behind than in front, and 
one-third wider than long. First row straight, all slightly sepa- 
rated. Middle eyes nearly twice lateral. Second row halfway 
between the others. Clypeus nearly equal to diameter of middle 
eyes. Labium as long as wide, and about half the length of 
maxillae. The sterum is light brown, with a circle of white hairs 
surrounding the central part. The first leg is adorned with 
fringes, the femur, patella, and tibia having two rows of dark 
hairs, with many white hairs extending beyond their tips, and 
also disposed over other parts of the leg ; on the tarsi and metarsi 
the hairs are too thin to form fringes. Two large, dark spatulate 
spines come off from the anterior side of each tibia. 
The cephalothorax is dark brown. Covering the clypeus, and 
extending back on either side is a narrow band of white. This 
white turns up on the thorax but does not reach the top. Behind 
each dorsal eyes is a short white spot. The cephalic plate is 
covered with short yellowish hairs, surrounded by a whitish 
border, which lies just within the quadrangle of the eyes. The 
abdomen is black, with a white basal band, which runs down on 
to the sides. Near the middle is a second transverse white band, 
the two being joined by a white band which extends from one 
to the other in the middle of the dorsum. Further back there 
is another short median longitudinal band, also white, with white 
spots on either side just above the spinnerets. The posterior 
sides are scalloped, the points of the scallop coming up a little 
toward the top of the abdomen. The under side has four light 
bands uniting at the spinnerets ; between the bands the color is 
dark. 
