186 Psyche [Sept.-Dee. 
cate and black; sternum pale yellow with many black hairs, 
convex, three-fifths as wide as long, fourth coxae separated by 
half a diameter; abdomen oval, black with three transverse 
bands of white hairs, the basal band widest and broken at the 
middle, the median and distal bands narrower and connected 
at the ends, venter black with a vague U-shaped stripe, spin- 
nerets long, ventral pair widely separated; legs , 4 — 1—3—2 , a 
darker yellow than the cephalothorax, no dark rings, very few 
spines, I and II tibiae, dorsal, 0, ventral, 1 at tip, I and II meta- 
tarsi, dorsal, 0, ventral, 1 at base, III tibia with a dorsal median 
spine, IV tibia, no dorsal median spine; epigynum , area wider 
than long, a pair of transverse oval depressions with heavily 
chitinized margins, each with two pits, near the slender septum, 
one pit above the other. 
Male. Length, 4.5 mm., ceph. 2.2 mm., abd. 2.3 mm. (Type). 
Cephalothorax more slender than in the female; eyes, mouth 
parts and sternum as in the female; abdomen has been rubbed 
so that the white hairs on the basal band and the middle of the 
median band have disappeared, as well as the black hairs that 
cover the rest of the dorsum, showing a wide distinct scutum 
from the base to the white band near the tip, the posterior 
margin truncate, venter gray with wide pale lateral stripes; 
legs, I pair missing, III tibia with a strong dorsal median spine, 
IV tibia, no dorsal median spine; palpus shorter than cephalo- 
thorax, patella and tibia about as long as the diameter of the 
joint, tibial apophysis as long as the diameter of tibia, narrow- 
ing rather abruptly with the margins of the distal half parallel, 
with a recurved hook at the tip. 
Holotype, S North Carolina; Raleigh, (Brimley). 
Allotype, 9 Alabama; Alexander City, 1-14 August 1944, 
(Nelson). 
Additional specimen, $ Alabama; Silver Hill, September 
1945, (Nelson). 
Sergiolus meretrix Chamberlin is separated from S. varie- 
gatus (Hentz), found in the same area, by the broader trans- 
verse bands of white hairs on the abdomen and by the secondary 
characters. In the male of S. meretrix the scutum almost covers 
the dorsum, the tibial apophysis of the palpus is more slender 
and the sides of the distal half are almost parallel; in S. varie- 
gatus the scutum covers about one-half the dorsum and the sides 
of the tibial apophysis are not parallel. The difference is as 
