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femora of the posterior three legs are yellow, the other joints are 
darker, and all are covered with short white hairs. The abdomen 
is dark-brown, with many lighter colored hairs. Two white 
bands come off from the base of the abdomen and run obliquely 
down the sides ; and just above the spinnerets are three or four 
very short white chevrons. Underneath, the color is light yellow. 
In the female the cephalothorax is yellowish-brown, mottled 
with many white hairs ; the lower margin is white, except at the 
middle of the posterior slope ; the two lateral bands pass up 
over the back, at first very slightly approaching each other, just 
at the dorsal eyes, and thereafter diverging. The clypeus is 
white, and the white is continued up and between the two anterior 
middle eyes, when it divides into two bands, which unite with 
the two that come up from behind ; thus a diamond-shaped white 
spot is formed on the cephalic plate. White lines extend from 
the anterior lateral eyes to the dorsal eyes on each side. These 
patterns are more or less distinct, depending upon the amount 
of white mixed with the brownish groimd color. The abdomen, 
while brownish in color, is much more mixed with white hairs 
than in the male ; there is a more distinctly white basal band, which 
passes down the sides. There are two oblique white bands on 
each side just behind the middle. In the middle of the posterior 
half of the back is a darker band, marked Avith two or three 
white chevrons or spots. The legs are light yellowish-brown, 
more or less covered with short white hairs. 
Wq have this species from Oregon, Utah and Xew jNIexico. 
(Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.) 
W'e have four males of Pellcnes with the clypeus red, signatus, 
California, hirsiitiis, Oregon, Utah and New Mexico; coecatus,- 
Southern and Eastern United States, and paratiis, Guatemala. 
Hirsutus is distinguished from the others by the flattened irides- 
cent metatarsus of the first leg ; coecatus, by the modification of 
the third leg; paratiis, by having the first leg plainly longest 
and stoutest, with no modification of either the first or third ; 
it has, also, the apophysis on the tibia of the palpus as wide as 
long. SigJiafus has no modification of the third leg, no irides- 
cence on the metatarsus of the first, and has the relative length 
31^2. Coronatiis Hentz has a red clypeus, but we have never 
seen a mature specimen, and are inclined to think that it may 
be the last moult before maturity of coecatus. 
Pellencs elegans, n. 
PI. I, fig. 3. 
d , Length, 5 mm. Legs, 3412. 
