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Psyche 
[September 
nov. ; Oonops endicus sp. nov. ; Oonops gertschi sp. nov. ; Oonops 
ronoxus sp. nov. A few specimens are left unplaced because of 
uncertainties regarding their status. 
Genus Oonops Templeton, 1835 
Oonops hermudens'is Banks 
Oonops hermudens'is Banks, 1902: 269, fig. 1. The female holotype was 
from the Bermuda Islands but efforts to locate it have been completely 
unsuccessful. Simon, 1903: 983; Petrunkevitch, 1911: 127; Roewer, 1942: 
278; Bonnet, 1958: 3189. 
Simon (1903) was uncertain about the generic status of this 
species. Banks’ Figure 1, showing the epigynal area, suggests that 
it belongs to Heteroonops spinimanus (Simon). 
Oonops balanus nomen novum 
Figures 1-11 
Telchius placidus Bryant, 1942: 323, figs. 3-4. The male holotype from 
St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands is in the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Harvard University, examined. The name Oonops placidus 
is preoccupied by Dalmas, 1916. 
The male holotype is badly dismembered and only one palp is 
still available for study. I feel fairly confident, however, that the 
species belongs in the genus Oonops where it is placed here. 
Numerous specimens believed to belong to this genus from South 
Bimini, Bahama Islands, all three U. S. Virgin Islands and Virgin 
Gorda, British Virgin Islands were for a considerable length of 
time regarded as belonging to several different new species. Repeated 
reexaminations have finally convinced me that the safest treatment 
in our present state of knowledge of the genus Oonops is to combine 
them all into one species as presented here. As usual, all six eyes 
are nearly of the same size but the outlines are often difficult to 
discern clearly. Some differences in respect to size and placement 
have been noted among the specimens from different islands but dif- 
ferences have also been observed among the specimens from a single 
island. The height and general shape of the carapace vary somewhat 
also, but not significantly from the taxonomic viewpoint. I have 
placed the greatest emphasis on the features of the male palpal tar- 
sus. This organ also shows some variation among the specimens 
from different localities but these now seem to fall well within the 
limits of variation in a single widespread species. The appearance 
of the palpal tarsus, especially the embolus, depends as much upon 
the angle of vision as upon any other factor. Figures 1-11 show 
parts of the holotype, female paratype and fairly recently collected 
specimens from St. Croix, V. I., South Bimini, Bahama Islands 
and Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. 
