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brown, with a thin covering of short white hairs. Under alco¬ 
hol the abdomen is almost colorless except in the posterior third, 
which is dark, and has two large, round black spots. When our 
somewhat damaged specimen is dry, this posterior third is seen 
to be covered with brilliant iridiscent scales, patches of which 
also occur on the anterior part and on the legs. The tibia of the 
first leg has, underneath, a short fringe of soft, dark hairs, and 
just above this, on the outer and inner sides, are three very 
short spines. 
We have a single female from southern Texas, near Mexico. 
BELLOTA WHEELERII, n. sp. 
Plate LI, figure 7. 
9 . Length, 4 mm. Legs 4132, first pair enlarged. Spines, 
tib. I 3-3, tib. II 3 serially below, met. I and II 2-2. 
A small ant-like species, without constrictions. The front 
eyes are close together in a straight row, the middle being more 
than twice as large as the lateral. The second row is half-way 
between the first and the third. The falces are vertical and rather 
stout for the size of the spider. The coxae are visible from 
above. The first leg has the femur and tibia much enlarged. 
There is a long pedicle.. 
The spider is brown with a thin covering of white hairs. 
The color is darkest on the cephalic plate and palest on the 
abdomen. There is a white line around the clypeus and the 
lower margin of the cephalothorax. One specimen has a black 
central longitudinal streak on the anterior third of the 
abdomen. The palpi are pale, the falces brown. In the first 
leg the coxa and trochanter are pale and the other joints brown, 
with short, white hairs. Underneath the tibia there is a ridge 
of stiff spiney dark hairs, which are truncated at the ends, and 
just above this, on the inner and outer sides, three short stout 
spines. The other legs have the femur and tibia dark brown, 
the patella a little lighter, and the metatarsus and tarsus pale. 
The coxa is pale in the second and fourth legs and dark in the 
third. 
