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vation, the appearance may be that of a light, or of a very dark 
species. Besides the short hairs which form the body covering, 
there are many longer ones, also gray, especially about the 
front of the head and on the legs, giving an unusually hirsute 
appearance. On the abdomen are two more or less distinct dark 
bands marked with four pairs of pure white spots which are out¬ 
lined in black. Mr. Emerton draws the second pair of these spots 
very small, but in our specimens they are large and obliquely 
inclined, sometimes coalesced to form a large spot, notched be¬ 
hind. There are the usual white bands on the base and sides. 
In some examples, especially in the males, instead of two dark 
bands on the abdomen, we have one wide band, but this is prob¬ 
ably due to the rubbing away of scales. On the middle posterior 
part there are metallic reflections. In old specimens the color 
may change to brown or red. The clypeus is fringed with 
white hairs and the falces are metallic green. The palpi are 
reddish with long gray hairs. The legs are dark, not banded, 
the first pair heavily fringed with a mixture of gray and dark 
brown hairs, not growing in bunches of alternate color, although 
the dark strongly predominates on the tibia, and on the upper 
surface of the femur. 
In the Britcher Collection is a female with 140 young. 
The specimens in the Cambridge collection from California 
and the southern states placed by Keyserling in this species, be¬ 
long elsewhere. In the male from Utah the two spots of the 
second pair, on the abdomen, are united (in all other male 
examples they are well separated) but the palpus agrees with 
purpuratus. We have it also from Texas and from Columbia, 
Mo., as well as'from several of the Hew England states, where 
Mr. Emerton says it is common. 
Purpuratus is close to texanus, the epigynes being almost ex¬ 
actly alike. The difference is in the marking on the abdomen, 
texanus having a central longitudinal white band which is lack¬ 
ing in purpuratus. 
