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Psyche 
[Sept. 
scales as a few remain, a few white scales about the eyes, 
a narrow marginal stripe of white scales from the second 
coxae to the posterior margin, cephalothorax high, sloping 
gradually from the groove to the posterior margin, an- 
terior margin very little narrowed, thoracic groove short 
in a semi-circular depression between the dorsal eyes ; 
eyes, anterior row covers the margin, recurved by the 
upper margins, a.m.e. very large, separated by a line, 
a.l.e. less than a radius of a.m.e. and separated from them 
by a line, second row of eyes midway between the first 
and third rows, dorsal eyes on the extreme margin of the 
carapace and slightly larger than a.l.e. ; quadrangle same 
width in front as behind; clypeus about wanting below 
a.m.e., with a fringe of white hairs and a long recurved 
bristle between the a.m.e. ; mandibles dark brown, verti- 
cal, no hairs or scales, fang groove short and oblique, 
upper margin with two small teeth, lower margin with a 
plate with two cusps, fang short; labium brown, slightly 
longer than wide, tip rebordered; maxillae pale, almost 
twice as long as labium ; sternum pale, almost as wide as 
long, (4.0: 4.5), first coxse separated by more than a 
diameter, fourth coxae almost touching; abdomen oval, 
about two-thirds as wide as long, pale, with a pair of 
wavering dark stripes which end at a narrow curved cross 
band just above the spinnerets, and a pair of lateral dark 
stripes which join the median pair above the cross bar 
and reach the spinnerets, the entire abdomen covered with 
short white hairs, venter pale with a pair of widely sepa- 
rated black spots just anterior to the spinnerets, spin- 
nerets long and closely grouped; legs, I pair missing, 
4-3-2, pale, II femur with a large prolateral dark spot, 
posterior femora with a dark basal dorsal spot, and a 
distal dark ring, spines, II pair, patella, prolateral, 1, 
tibia, ventral, 2-2-2, prolateral, 3, retrolateral, 1, meta- 
tarsus, ventral, 2-2, basal pair very long, lateral, 2; 
epigynum only faintly cliitinized, a pair of circular sacs 
beneath the surface, not quite touching, best understood 
from the figure. 
Holotvpe ? Puerto Rico ; Luquillo Mountains, 3,000 
feet, July 1944 (Beatty). 
