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Spider all gray, abdomen sometimes with one or two pairs 
of white dots. Size 15 mm. California, New Mexico, 
Colorado . opifex 
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Spider all brown; abdomen sometimes showing two indis¬ 
tinct dark longitudinal bands marked with white dots. 
Size 9.5 mm. Massachusetts, New York .brunneus 
Abdomen more or less spotted or banded .26 
Abdomen with a whitish basal band and a single pair of 
26 j white spots. Size 8 mm. Pennsylvania. princeps 
( Abdomen with numerous spots and bands . 27 
A wide white band crossing clypeus and covering upper 
sides of cepthalothorax, edged below, on sides, with 
dark brown, the lower sides being covered with tawny 
hairs; upper surface of cephalothorax white and 
brown. Texas . pruinosus 
Cephalothorax dark with light bands or spots . 28 
Cephalothorax gray or white . 29 
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Cephalic plate without white spot; cephalothorax nearly 
encircled by a white band which crosses the clypeus; 
first leg heavily fringed. Size 10-15 mm. Southern 
states .... otiosus 
Cephalic plate with a white spot; cephalic part encircled by 
a white band, which passes around clypeus and 
crosses behind dorsal eyes. Size 12-14 mm. Habitat 
unknown . Workmanii 
A large light spot between dorsal eyes; sides of cephalo¬ 
thorax covered with white hairs. Size 10 mm. New 
Mexico . comatus (in part) 
Comatus is properly classed with the red spiders, but since 
we have one example which has lost this color, through 
fading, we take it out under the second heading as 
well. 
f Cephalothorax gray with transverse row of three white 
I spots on cephalic plate. Texas, North Carolina .. mystaceus 
I Cephalic plate without transverse row of white spots. 
I Sides of cephalothorax without white bands ... 80 
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Cephalothorax covered with snowy white hairs except for 
a band of reddish hairs between the eyes of the second 
row; abdomen light gray with white spots and bands 
outlined in black; falces with a band of white hairs 
above. North Carolina, Texas, Kansas . carolinensis 
Cephalothorax gray; abdomen with metallic band and four 
pairs white spots. Western, southern and eastern 
states, common in New England. purpuratus 
Cephalothorax covered with whitish hairs, more or less 
tinged with yellow; abdomen with central white band, 
forked behind. Texas, Kansas .. texanus 
