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than the hind femora, with a stout apical spur. Hind tarsi piceous. 
Fore winffs brown ; coriura with pale veins. Hind wings cinereous ; veins 
black. Female. — Bands of the abdomen connected. Hind femora less 
incrassaled than those of the male. Hind tibiae not dilated, with a testa- 
ceous band beyond the middle. Length of the body 5| — 6 lines. 
a, h. Para. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
Genus 17. PHIDIPPUS. 
Phidippus, Slal, Hem. Fahr. 42. 
Phidippus, Flavius, Hirilcus and Peranthus are hardly suflSciently 
different from Meropachys to be considered as genera. 
1. Phidippus asper. 
Mas. Fulvus, longiusculus ; rostrum coxas anlica.t allingens; antennce 
rufcE, corpore mullo breviores ; prolhorax sraber, angulis posticis 
subobtusis non prominulis ; scutellum apice flavum ; femora poslica 
incrassata, subarcuala, subtus uniserialim spinosa ; iibice poslicae 
subtus denlalce et unispinosce. 
Male. Tawny, elongate. Eyes piceous, prominent. Rostrum 
extending to the fore coxae; joints nearly equal in length. Antennae red, 
much shorter than the body ; joints from the first to the third successively 
decreasing in length. Prothorax scabrous : a callus on each side near the 
fore border; transverse ridge near the hind border slight; sides straight; 
hind angles slightly obtuse, not prominent. Scutellum with a callus on 
each side near the base and with two transverse furrows nearer the tip, 
which is smooth and pale yellow. Four anterior femora beneath with some 
minute spines and with a longer subapical spine on each side. Hind 
femora incrassaled, slightly curved, about half the length of the abdomen, 
with a row of stout spines beneath. Hind tibise a little longer than the 
hind femora, dentate beneath, where there is one spine at a little beyond 
the middle. Fore wings not covering the sides nor the tip of the abdomen ; 
membrane cinereous. Length of the body 10 lines. 
a. Amazon Region. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
Genus 18. FLAVIUS. 
Flavius, Slal, Stett, Ent. Zeit. xxiii. 274. Ofv. K. V. Ak. Fork. 1867, 
536. Hem. Fabr. 4. 
1. Flavius lineaticornis. 
lineaticornis, Stal, Steit. Ent. Zeit. xxiii. 275. 
Mexico. 
2. Flavius pinguis. 
pinguis, Stalf Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxiii. 275. 
Mexico. 
