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Fig. 1. Abbot’s figure 444 on which Walckenaer (1837) based his description of 
Attus marginatus. Abbot’s legend reads “444. Aranea. Taken 4th April, two upon a 
Myrtle on the side of a Pond in the Oak Woods of Burke County. Rare.” From a 
color slide taken by Allen Brady of Abbot’s (1792) original in the British Museum 
(Natural History). 
1845 description might refer to either the transamerican or the east- 
ern species. Still, his failure to describe a white marginal band in the 
male, and his illustration showing a dark femur on the male palp 
(better seen in his original color drawing) both suggest that he had 
the transamerican species. Therefore, I have designated a male of 
this species as neotype for Attus militaris. This is advantageous for 
nomenclatural stability, for Hentz’s name was the only name com- 
monly used before 1930 for the abundant transamerican species. In 
contrast, I have been unable to find any use of Koch’s names albo- 
vittatus, aurigera, and humilis since 1864, except in synonymies and 
catalogues. 
Male carapace margin and clypeus brown (Fig. 7), without white 
scales, or if the clypeus has white scales, then they only rarely extend 
along margin past palps. Longitudinal white bands extending back 
