1976] 
Carico — Spider Genus Tinus 
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Tinus prusius new species 
Figures 5, 26, 27 
Types. A female holotype, a female paratype, and seven juve- 
niles from Prusia, Chiapas, Mexico, April-May 1942, collected by 
H. Wagner, in the American Museum of Natural History. 
Etymology. The name is derived from the name of the type lo- 
cality. 
Diagnosis. Both female types have a distinctly dark dorsum with 
an obscure median dark band and white spots (Fig. 5). The epi- 
gynum has a large median hood-like elevation which separates the 
lateral elevations. 
Description. Carapace: length of holotype 7.6 mm (paratype 
damaged); broad dark median band; broad light submarginal bands 
extend laterally almost to margin; clypeus dark except for median 
white spot. Legs', paratype 4-2-1 -3 (holotype has first pair mis- 
sing); color generally dark with light areas on dorsal surfaces of 
femora, light annuli on segments distal to patella. Abdomen : quite 
dark dorsally and laterally; median band obscure; pair of large white 
spots anteriorly, and posteriorly (approximately at indentations 
of median band); two pairs of small white spots posteriorly; median 
serrated light area posteriorly. Epigynum : (Fig. 26) lateral eleva- 
tions widely separated, median elevation elevated, broad, emargi- 
nated posteriorly, hood-like. Internal copula tory apparatus'. (Fig. 
27) bursae copulatrix small, arising from posterior part of median 
elevation; fertilization tubes small, looped tightly against sperma- 
theca. 
Natural History. No data available. 
Distribution. Known only from the type locality. 
Material Examined. Two females, seven juveniles (type collec- 
tion). Males unknown. 
Tinus palictlus new species 
Figures 6, 16, 17, 28, 29 
Types. A male holotype and a female paratype from Palictla, 
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1-5 Sept. 1946, collected by C. M. Bogert, 
in the American Museum of Natural History. 
Etymology. The name is dervied from the name of the type lo- 
cality. 
