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Psyche 
[December 
longer than wide, tibial apophysis longer than joint and 
extends one half length of cymbium, slender and smooth, 
embolus, short, starting from near the tip, making an 
abrupt turn soon after its origin, on opposite side of tip a 
slender black spine which extends slightly outside on cym- 
bium, seen from the side between the embolus and the 
black spine are two leaf-like pieces with dark margins 
which cover the parts at the tip like a veil ; at base of the 
organ is a dark round knob. 
Holotype 1 8 Florida; Coral Gables, 17 June, 1935 (0. C. 
Webb). 
Herpyllus faxoni sp. nov. 
Fig. 6 
Female. Length, exclusive of spinnerets, 7.5 mm. ; ceph., 
3.5 mm. ; abd., 4.0 mm. ; width of abd., 2.6 mm. 
Cephalothorax golden brown, covered with fine white 
hairs and long scattered black hairs, widest between second 
and third pair of legs, much narrowed anteriorly, gently 
rounded, thoracic groove distinct ; eyes, anterior row 
slightly recurved, a.m.e. largest of the eight, separated by 
a radius and almost touching a.l.e., posterior row procurved 
so that anterior margin of p.m.e. and middle of p.l.e. form 
a straight line, p.m.e. slightly angulate rather than oval, 
separated by a little more than their long diameter and by a 
little less from p.l.e., lateral eyes subequal and separated by 
less than a diameter; quadrangle of median eyes wider in 
front and slightly higher than wide; clypeus about one-half 
diameter of a.m.e. ; mandibles vertical, cone shaped, brown 
covered with long black hairs, fang groove short, inferior 
margin with no teeth, superior margin with very small 
nodules, fang short; labium almost twice as high as wide, 
lateral margins at basal third slightly excavate; maxillse 
not twice as high as labium, only slightly impressed, slightly 
inclined over labium, upper margins rounded; sternum 
oval, slightly narrowed between first coxse, lateral margins 
slightly emarginate, tip obtusely pointed in front of fourth 
coxse; abdomen dark gray with a median light stripe, wide 
at base, sides converging and almost meeting at middle and 
