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Color . Female from Mexico. Face and chelicerae pale cream to 
yellow, overlaid with white appressed hair. Brown stripes from 
AME to subdistal region of chelicerae as in Figure 15. Eye nacelles 
black, covered with white hair. 
Carapace yellow, overlaid with white spatulate-shaped hair. Wide 
dark brown submarginal stripes as in Figure 16. 
Dorsum of abdomen with broad median white stripe outlined 
with brown; brown mottled with white along sides as in Figure 16. 
Venter with a wide mottled brown and yellow median stripe from 
epigastric furrow to base of spinnerets. This stripe surrounded by 
pale cream laterally. 
Legs yellow, shaded with brown. 
Labium pale yellow, with brown along sides. Endites and sternum 
pale yellow. 
Diagnosis. On the basis of morphological characteristics, color 
pattern, and the structure of the female genitalia O. panther belongs 
close to O. tridens. Since the female of O. pardus , another closely 
related species, is unknown, it is difficult to establish its relationship 
to O. panther. As has been suggested previously (Brady, 1969), 
O. panther may be the female of O. pardus. Until we have males 
and females collected together, it will be impossible to reach a, de- 
cision. Oxyopes panther is easily distinguished from O. tridens by 
its epigynum (compare Figs. 43, 44 and figs. 16, 17 of Brady, 1969 
with figs. 53-55 of Brady, 1964). 
Natural History. One note of interest is that O. panther has not 
been found below 6,000 feet in elevation. Altitudes are listed for 
specimens in the records below. 
Distribution. Arizona, Chihuahua, and Durango (Map 2). 
Records. NORTH AMERICA. Arizona. Cochise Co.: 12 mi. 
W of Portal, 6,000 ft. (1,830 m), 13 July 1968, 9 (L. D. Mikel- 
son). 
MEXICO. Chihuahua. W summit of Primavera near Gallego, 
7,000 ft. (2,135 m), 2 July 1947, $ (WJG) ; NE summit of San 
Jose Babicora, 7,700 ft. (2,350 m), 3 July 1947, 9 (WJG). 
Durango. Palos Colorados about 25 mi. W of Durango, 8,000 ft. 
(2,440 m), 5 Aug. 1947, 9 (WJG). 
