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Dorsum of abdomen dark brown with a wide median white stripe 
as in Figure 18. Sides of abdomen pale yellow with irregular brown 
spots. Venter with a wide brown stripe from epigastric furrow to 
base of spinnerets, outlined by white or pale yellow. 
Legs yellow to yellow-orange with mid-ventral black stripe on 
femora I and II. 
Labium pale yellow, brownish along sides. Endites pale yellow. 
Sternum cream to pale yellow. 
Color. Male. Face and chelicerae pale yellow to light orange 
without darker markings, with lower edge of clypeus cream as in 
Figure 71. Palpi light to dark brown. 
Carapace yellow to pale yellow-orange with darker brown sub- 
marginal stripes as in Figure 72. 
Dorsum of abdomen with broad white median stripe bordered by 
dark brown to black as in Figure 72. Venter with wide median 
brownish stripe from epigastric furrow to base of spinnerets, bor- 
dered by lighter cream. 
Legs pale yellow with mid-ventral black lines on femora I-II. 
Labium and endites pale yellow. Sternum cream to pale yellow. 
Dark Male. A single darker colored male has the face and cheli- 
cerae orange brown without distinct darker markings. Cymbia of 
palpi black. 
Carapace yellow-orange with dark brown submarginal stripes. 
Dorsum with broad white median stripe overlaid with darker 
scale-like hairs. Venter with median stripe dark brown to black. 
Diagnosis. Oxyopes ocelot has the well-developed fourth pair of 
legs and the broad median white stripe of the abdomen flanked by 
black that is characteristic of the tridens species group. The face 
is not strongly marked as in other members of the group, however. 
The palpal organ of the male and to a lesser extent the epigynum 
of this species place it closest to O. cornutus. Oxyopes ocelot is 
distinguished from this species by its coloration and the distinctive 
male palpus (compare Figs. 100, 101 to Figs. 104, 105) and female 
epigynum (compare Figs. 41, 42 with Figs. 43, 44). 
Figs. 84-85. Oxyopes calcarifer F.O.P.-Cambridge = O. bifissus, male 
holotype from Costa Rica. 84. Retrolateral view. 85. Ventral view. 
Figs. 86-87. Oxyopes bifissus F.O.P.-Cambridge, male lectotype from 
Teapa, Tabasco. 86. Retrolateral view. 87. Ventral view. 
Figs. 88-89. Oxyopes bifissus F.O.P.-Cambridge, male from Compostela, 
Nayarit, 12 July 1972. 88. Left palpus, retrolateral view. 89. Left palpus, 
ventral view. 
Scale on the left is for Figs. 84-87. 
Scale on the right is for Figs. 88-89. 
