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extended between coxae in typical fashion; with the usual pair of 
small tubercles at posterior end. Legs: 1423 in order of length; 
tibial index of first leg 15, of fourth leg 12; scopulae as usual on 
first tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi and with considerable iridescence; 
small scopulae also on metatarsi 2-4; two claws and claw tufts as 
usual ; trichobothria appear to be numerous on several segments. 
Palp: apparently quite distinctive; essential features shown in Fig- 
ures 6-7. Abdomen: ovoid; only slightly flattened dorsoventrally ; 
epigenital area with a well marked scutum reaching dorsally to sur- 
round the base of the abdomen (Fig. 8) ; two spinnerets as usual, 
with a narrow chitinous wall nearly surrounding spinnerets and 
anal tubercle. 
Type locality . Male holotype, one male paratype and an immature 
specimen were taken on St. John, U. S. Virgin Islands on July 22, 
1966. Two immature specimens previously assigned to O. lutzi 
Petrunkevitch (Chickering, 1966) are now placed in this new species. 
Selected bibliography 
Banks, Nathan 
1929. Spiders from Panama. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69 : 53-96, 4 pis. 
Bryant, Elizabeth B. 
1940. Cuban Spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. 
Mus. Comp. Zool., 86(7): 249-532, 22 pis. 
Chickering, A. M. 
1941. The Palpimanidae of Panama. Papers of the Michigan Acad, 
of Science, Arts, and Letters, 27, 1941. 
1966. New Species of Palpimanidae (Araneae) from the West Indies. 
Psyche, 73 (3) : 208-216. 
Petrunkevitch, Alexander 
1929. The Spiders of Porto Rico. Pt. 1, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts 
and Sci., 30: 7-158, 150 figs. 
Simon, Eugene 
1891. On the spiders of the Island of St. Vincent. Pt. 1. Proc. Zool. 
Soc. of London, Nov. 17, 1891. 
