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ATTID/E OF THE UNITED STATES. 
1883 
There are stout femoral, tibial and metatarsal spines on the four 
pairs, those on the metatarsis of the fourth extending to the base. 
The abdomen is covered at the base with coarse gray hairs; other- 
wise it is covered with short, bright red and long whitish hairs. On 
the middle of the dorsum are three eye spots, a large one in the cen- 
ter, and posterior to this, two, which are transversely elongated. They 
are of the same bright red color, encircled by black rings. The sides 
are covered with long gray hairs. The spinnerets are black. 
The venter has a wide central longitudinal band, black, limited by 
the gray hair which comes low on the sides. .1 ust at the apex, be- 
tween the black band and the black spinnerets, is a narrow transverse 
band of gray hairs. 
• The epigynum presents a rounded plate, wider than long, with the 
opening at the posterior edge, which is notched. 
Habitat, Florida. 
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XIT. Attus m’cookii, new. 
(Plata II, Figure 12.) 
FEMALE— Length, 14.4 mm. ; width of abdomen, 6 mm.; length of ceph.th., 4.9 mm.: 
width of ceph.th., 4.2 mm. 
Legs 
Fern . 
Pat. 
Til). 
Metat. 
Tar. 
Total. 
1 . 
8.7 
1.9 
2.1 
1.6 
1.4 
10.7 
2. 
8. 
1.2 
1.5 
1.8 
1 . 
8. 
8. 
8.1 
1.2 
1.5 
1.3 
* 1.1 
8.2 
4. 
8.7 
1.8 
2.5 
1.8 
1.2 
11. 
The cephalothorax is high; the thoracic part is longer than the 
cephalic. In color it is dark rufous covered with tawny hair. 
The quadrangle of the eye is wider than long, and much wider be- 
hind. The dorsal eye is as large as the, lateral eye, and is on a line 
with it. The small median eye is a little higher than the upper border 
of the lateral eye, and is much nearer the lateral than the dorsal eye. 
The anterior row of eyes is slightly curved, a straight line from the 
to)) of the middle eyes cutting the upper borders of the lateral eyes. 
The middle eyes are twice as large as the lateral, and are snb-toueh- 
ing; the lateral are separated from the middle by about half their 
diameter. Theelypeusis about one-hall' as wide as the middle eyes; 
it is vertical, and is dark rufous in color, with long white hairs. 
The palpus is rufous, with white hairs. 
The falces are not very stout, slightly inclined bade ward, a little 
longer than the face; their color is dark rufous. 
The max illas have their outer edges slanting outward; the extremi- 
ties are rounded; the inner edges slant toward the lip; the lip is 
rounded at the tip, half as long as the maxilla;. In color the mouth 
parts are rufous, with the tip of the lip and the inner edges of the 
maxilla; pale. 
