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Figs. 2-7. Eris militaris 2. Left palp, ventral view (Port Elgin, Ontario). 
3. Epigynum, ventral view (Dwight, Ontario). 4. Cleared epigynum, dorsal view 
(Dwight, Ontario); arrow shows flowerlike gland opening. 5. Left palp, oblique 
view from the ventral-retrolateral-distal (Pine Lake, Michigan), and 6. Same (For- 
syth, Georgia); arrow shows lack of wrinkles on retrolateral half of embolar base. 
7. Male carapace and chelicerae (Walloon Lake, Michigan), oblique view. Scale bars 
0.1 mm for 2-6; 1 mm for 7. 
from anterior lateral eyes usually broad. Palp femur and patella as 
dark as the more distal segments. Embolus shorter and stouter, and 
more broadly joined to the embolar base (Figs. 5, 6) than in flava. 
Wrinkles on the ventral surface of the embolar base usually straight, 
and absent from the retrolateral half (Figs. 2, 5, 6; see arrow in Fig. 
6 ). 
Female carapace generally with a continuous covering of white 
scales above margin beneath anterior lateral eyes. Epigynal open- 
ings usually smaller and more laterally facing (Fig. 3) than in flava. 
