390 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 
and the other parts black. This species varies greatly in size. 
In large males from Texas the first legs are relatively longer 
than in the smaller forms from the north. Both Howardii and 
variegatus have white bands on the cephaiothorax; andax is en¬ 
tirely black. 
Females in the Britcher collection had cocoons containing 
90-166 eggs. Audax is widely distributed, but up to this time 
has not been reported from the Pacific coast. We have it from 
the southern states, Mr. Emerton from the eastern, and Mr. 
Banks as far west as Colorado. 
PHIDIPPUS VARIEGATUS LUCAS 1833. 
Plate XXIX, fig. 1. 
1833. Salticus variegatus Lucas d, Ann. SOc. Ent. Fr., II, p. 476. 
1837. Attus morsitans Walck. $, Hist. Nat. des Insectes, Apteres, I, 
p. 432. 
1846. Phidippus variegatus C. K. £ and Piiidippus lunulatus C. 
K. XIII, p. 125, p. 133. 
1898. Phidippus variegatus B., Ent. News, June 1898, p. 142. 
1901. Phidippus variegatus P. J 1 , Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Let¬ 
ters, XIII, p. 285. 
Not morsitans P. 1888. 
Length, $ $ 11-15 mm. Legs, $ 1423, $ 4123, first pair 
robust, heavily fringed. This is a big heavy black spider, the 
sides of the cephaiothorax with two wide white bands which 
do not meet behind, and which reach forward only to the 
dorsal eyes. The abdomen has a white band around the front 
and sides, a large triangular spot in the middle and two pairs 
of bars further back. Down the middle, behind the white spot, 
are metallic scales. The palpus has white scales above on fe¬ 
mur and patella, and the legs are fringed with black and white 
as in audax and Howardii, from both of which it is distin¬ 
guished by the white bands on the cephaiothorax. The male 
and female are alike. 
This species is reported by Lucas and Koch from Hew Or¬ 
leans, La., and Carolina, and by Walckenaer from Georgia and 
Carolina. We have it from Louisiana, Texas and Mexico. 
