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ATTID/E OF TIIE UNITED STATES. 
1883 
VII. Attus rusticolus, new. 
( Plate I, Figure 7.) 
FEMALE— Length, 4.7 mm. ; width of abdomen, 2.1 mm.; length of cepli.th., 2.4 mm. ; 
width of ceph.th., 1.9 mm. 
Legs. 
Fem. 
Pat. 
Tib. 
Metat. 
Tar. 
Total. 
1. 
1.2 
.8 
.9 
.7 
.6 
4.2 
2. 
1. 
.7 
.8 
.5 
.4 
3.4 
8. 
1. 
.ft- 
.7 
.4 
.3 
8 
4. 
1.8 
.7 
1 2 
.7 
.5 
4.9 
The cephalothorax is rather high ; the thoracic part is longer than 
the cephalic ; the color is uniform tawny, caused by a close mixture 
of reddish, black, and gray hairs. The lower margin has a narrow 
line of black. In some specimens there are one or two indistinct, 
darker, transverse bands on the thoracic part, which begin at the sides 
and curve forward toward the eyes. 
The quadrangle of the eyes is wider than long, and not wider be- 
hind. The dorsal is a little smaller than the lateral eye, and is placed 
higher, a straight line from its lower border passing above the lateral 
eye. The small median eye is in a line with the lower border of the 
dorsal eye, and is nearer to it than to the lateral eye. The anterior 
row of eyes is straight; the lateral eyes are half as large as the middle 
eyes, and are slightly separated from them; the middle eyes touch 
each other. The clypeus is two-thirds as wide as the middle eyes, re- 
treating, and covered with red and gray hairs. 
The palpus is reddish, covered with white hairs. 
The takes are weak, vertical, dark brown in color, with a few red- 
dish hairs at the base. 
The maxilla; and lip are brown, paler at the, tips. The maxilla; are 
rounded ; the lip is about half as long, and is truncated. 
The sternum is almost black, with some sparse, whitish hairs. The 
anterior thighs are separated by more than the width of the lip at the 
base. 
The relative length of the legs is 4, 1, 2, 3. The lirst pair is a little 
the stoutest. In color they are testaceous, covered with short white 
hairs. There are black bands at the extremity of the femur, at the 
base and extremity of the tibia, and at the extremities of the metatar- 
sus, and tarsus. There are spines on the tibial and metatarsal joints 
of the four pairs, those on the metatarsi of the fourth extending to 
the base. 
The abdomen is of the same tawny color as the cephalothorax. 
The markings are regular, but indistinct; there are two lightish spots 
just in front of the middle point of the dorsum, the posterior edges of 
which are outlined by black bands which pass downward over the 
sides. Posterior to these are two larger spots of the same light color 
whose posterior edges are outlined by a single black band which 
curves forward between them, forming a V- This black band passes 
nearly around the circumference of the spots, but does not quite en- 
