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dark except at the end, where they are short and white, while be¬ 
low they are white at the proximal end and black through the 
rest of the joint. Under the patella they are white; under the 
tibia they are white at the proximal end, the rest of the joint 
having a thick black brush, and under the metatarsus they 
are white under the proximal and black under the distal end. 
The other legs are fringed in the same way but not so heavily. 
The male and female in the Britcher collection, though smaller 
and not so hairy, are too close to otiosus to be considered more 
than a variety of that species. In the male the white bands on 
the cephalothorax stop just back of the front lateral eyes, and 
the clypeus is brown on the sides and white in the middle. The 
integument of the cephalothorax as well as of the abdomen, is 
very iridescent. The abdomen has the detached spots on the 
sides, beyond the ends of the basal band, higher up, and the 
spots at the end have the appearance of two pairs of white bars. 
The legs are not heavy and the fringe under the tibia of the 
first is entirely black. The female has the cephalothorax cov¬ 
ered with white hairs, and on the abdomen are two dark longi¬ 
tudinal bands on the outer sides of the white spots. The legs 
are rather slender and the fringe on the first is entirely white. 
Hentz found large numbers of the female of otiosus hiber¬ 
nating under bark, in northern Alabama. We have had it 
from Georgia and Florida, and Mr. Banks reports it from the 
latter state. The variety described above is from Baltimore, 
Maryland. Mr. Banks has sent us a female of this variety from 
the District of Columbia. He considers it identical with otio¬ 
sus. 
PHIDIPPUS' MINIATUS P. 1883. 
Plate XXXII, figs. 5—5a. 
1883. Attus miniatus P. 5, Descr. new or little known Attidae U. S. 
p. 15. 
1888. Phidippus miniatus P. $, Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Let¬ 
ters, VII, N. A. Att. p. 15. 
1901. Phidippus miniatus P., $, Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Let¬ 
ters, XIII, p. 286. 
