Beckham—Revision of the Attidce of North America . 391 
PHIDIPPUS HOWARD 11 P. 1896. 
Plate XXIX, fig. 3. 
1896. Phidippus howardii P. J 1 , Occ. Pap. Nat. Hist. Soc. Wis., Ill, 1, 
p. 34. 
1901. Phidippus howardii P. <?, Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Letters, 
XIII, p. 285. 
3 . Length 7-9 mm. Legs 1423, first pair enlarged and 
fringed. ' 
This species is close to Phidippus andax but has the cephala- 
thorax longer in proportion to the width, and is more lightly 
and gracefully built. The white band on the cephalothorax dis¬ 
tinguishes it. 
The whole body is black. Across the cephalothorax just be¬ 
hind the ocular region, is a wide zig-zag white band which curves 
down on each side so as to nearly surround the dorsal eye, and 
ends in a little bunch of white hairs. The cephalic plate is 
covered with yellowish hairs mixed with metallic scales. On 
the middle of the abdomen is a large triangular white spot and 
farther back are two pairs of oblique white bars, the outer ends 
of which are sometimes connected by several white dots. There 
are the usual white basal and side bands, and on each side of the 
middle is a scalloped band of metallic scales. There are also 
metallic scales in the middle line, in front of and behind the 
central white spot. The palpus is dark red, with black hairs 
on the sides and a white band above as far as the end of the 
tibia. The legs are black, or rufus barred with black; the fe¬ 
mur of the first has black hair above and below with some white 
hairs at the end, the patella has a thick white fringe, the tibia 
a stiff brush of black, and the metatarsus has white hairs at the 
base and black at the end. The falces are iridescent blue. 
Since we described Howardii from a single male in 1896 we 
have received two more perfect specimens from Reynosa, Mex¬ 
ico, and one from Columbia, Missouri. The black male var- 
iegatus, from the same locality, has wide white bands on the 
sides of the cephalothorax, and is much larger. 
