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and Letters. 
either rimator Wlk. or auctus C. K., nor is it the species that 
we described as Phiheus rimator in 1888. 
Length, $ 8mm., 2 10-13mm. Legs, $ 1423, $ 4132, 
first pair enlarged and fringed in the male. 
The male of this species is difficult to distinguish from that 
of Johnsonii, the points of difference being as follows: The black 
parts are of a deeper black; the cephalothorax, instead of being 
covered with brownish hairs, having black hairs, and sometimes 
three spots of bright red, one in the post-ocular depression, and 
one behind each dorsal eye. The palpus has all the parts 
heavier, and lacks the white hand which is seen on the femur in 
Johnsonii, while the tibia! apophysis, instead of tapering gradu¬ 
ally, is as wide at the end as at the base, except for a little point 
at the very tip. The legs are usually black, although one ex¬ 
ample has light legs with only the distal ends of the joints dark¬ 
ened; and the only white on the femur of the first is supplied 
by some scales on the inner face and a few hairs above. On 
the patella, too, the white is less marked than in Johnsonii, the 
hairs being mainly on the anterior face, instead of both in front 
and behind. The abdomen is without the white basal band 
which may, or may not appear in Johnsonii, and the red is more 
solid. There is no indication of the two black bands on the pos¬ 
terior part of the abdomen, which, in Johnsonii, can usually be 
detected under alcohol, excepting in the specimen with light 
legs, mentioned above. 
The red on the abdomen is very vivid, and extends to the spin¬ 
nerets, there being no central, basal or side bands. Low down 
on base and sides the abdomen is jet black. The first leg is 
fringed with black, and has, besides the white mentioned above 
on the femur and patella, the usual white hairs under the prox¬ 
imal ends of the metatarsus and tarsus. The clypeus is clothed 
with dull yellowish hairs, and the falces are iridescent green. 
The female has a jet black cephalothorax with black hairs. 
The intense red of the upper surface of the abdomen is broken 
by a central black band which reaches a point a little in front of 
the middle, and which is not barred, as in Johnsonii and ar- 
dens, although one example shows red indentations along the 
