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There is a band around the front end, a pair of spots in front of 
the middle, a large central spot, two oblique bands on each side, 
and a pair of spots in front of the spinnerets. The legs and 
palpi are brown covered with white scales. The femur of the 
first leg, in the male, has at the inner upper part of the distal 
end, a bunch of hairs which are black with white tips. Running 
along under all the joints of this leg is a double fringe of hairs 
of mixed colors, white, dark, and rusty-brown, these last grow¬ 
ing white at the ends. 
We have it from North Carolina and Texas, and Mr. Scheffer 
has found it at Hays and Stockton, Kansas. 
The young males of obscurus have three white spots on the 
cephalic plate, as in the adult female of mystaceus Hentz. The 
white diagonals on the sides of the abdomen are usually convex 
toward the front, but in the Kansas specimens, perhaps from a 
shrinkage after the laying of eggs, they curve in the other di¬ 
rection. One of the Kansas females has metallic reflections 
on the middle of the abdomen. 
PHIDIPPUS PURPURATUS K. 
Plate XXXIV, figs. 5—5d. 
1885. Phidippus purpuratus and albomaculatus 5 K., Ver. z. b. Ge- 
sell., 489-491 (not albomaculatus P. 1888). 
1888. Phidippus galathea P. 5 , Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Letters, 
VII, N. A. Att., p. 14 (not Attus galathea Wlk. 1837.) 
1891. Phidippus mystaceus E. $, Trans. Conn. Acad., VIII, New Eng¬ 
land Attidas, p. 9 (not mystaceus H. 1845). 
' 1895. Phidippus borealis B. $ Can. Ent. p. 96. 
1901. Phidippus galathea P., Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Letters, 
XIII, p. 286, $ p. 288. 
This species bears some resemblance to asinarius C. K 
and also to elecfus C. K. 
Length, $ 10-12 mm., 2 12-15 mm. Legs, $ 1423, $ 
4132, first pair enlarged and fringed. 
Both sexes have a thick covering of light gray hairs over a 
very dark integument, so that, according to the state of preser- 
