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middle of the cephalic plate. The clypeus has long white hairs 
in the middle and short orange hairs under the lateral eyes. 
The falces, which may or may not be iridescent, have white 
scales on the upper part and long loose white hairs, mixed some¬ 
what with tawny hairs, below. The abdomen has an encircling 
white band which ends, on the posterior sides, in oblique white 
bars. There is a large central white spot, and further back are 
two pairs of white bars, on the edge of a metallic longitudinal 
band which seems to have been covered with iridescent pinkish 
scales. We find patches of these scales only on two dark speci¬ 
mens from Ohio. 
The palpus has the femur and patella light, with white scales, 
above, at the end of the femur. The tibia and tarsus are darker. 
The legs are brown, with a good deal of long whitish hair. The 
first is fringed and has a curious enlargement below the femur. 
This joint grows larger from the proximal end until it reaches 
an enlarged plate on the distal two-thirds. This plate faces 
inward, and is covered with hairs which form a crest at the top, 
made of white, or smoky, or greenish hairs, while below and out¬ 
side is a curly bunch of long dark and white hairs. Surround¬ 
ing the lower distal end of the plate, where the femur is abruptly 
narrowed, is a narrow band of pure white scales or hairs. Un¬ 
der the other joints is a fringe of yellowish-white hairs which 
are mingled with dark hairs on the distal and proximal ends of 
the tibia. 
The ornamentation on the femur and the ridges on the ce¬ 
phalic plate are more developed in some specimens than in 
others. 
We have the type specimen from Iowa,, a male from Mis¬ 
souri, and others from Urbana, Ohio, sent by Mr. J. A. Nel¬ 
son, of Cornell University. Keyserling’s example was from 
Kentucky. 
Uemoratus, which has the femur similarly ornamented, is very 
close to Putnamii, although the color is bright red instead of 
reddish-brown. Uemoratus has a white band above the front 
eyes, and has wide white bands on the upper part of the sides 
of the cephalothorax. The pattern on the abdomen is the same in 
