428 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 
PHIDIPPUS COMATUS P. 1901. 
Plate XXXII, figs. 4—4a. 
1901. Phidippus comatus P., $ only, Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and 
Letters, XIII, p. 291. 
9 . Length, 10 mm. Legs, 4132. 
There is a hand of white hairs over the front eyes and back 
of this is a band of long dark brown hairs which reaches to a 
large light-colored square spot between the dorsal eyes, on which 
the hairs are white in front and reddish behind. The sides of 
the cephalothorax are covered with white hairs. The thoracic 
slope, in our specimens, is rubbed, showing only some small 
patches of red hairs. In front of the dorsal eyes, and on the 
sides below the lateral eyes, are conspicuous dark tufts. The 
palpi are of a light reddish color entirely covered with long 
white hairs; the clypeus is also covered with white hairs and the 
falces are dark reddish-brown. The pattern on the abdomen 
is in white. There is a basal band from which a central notched 
band passes back through two-thirds of the length. This is en¬ 
larged at two points, in front of and at the middle, by its union 
with the usual two pairs of spots, each pair, in this case, having 
coalesced. Back of the middle the band is made up of two or 
three long pointed chevrons, which terminate at the first of the 
two pairs of bars. The outer ends of these bars are joined on 
the lower sides. On either side of the central white band our 
specimens show patches of red hairs, indicative, probably, of 
narrow red bands. The sides are streaked diagonally with 
white and reddish-gray. The legs are barred with light and 
'dark brown, and are covered with white scales and brown hairs. 
Although our specimens are so imperfect this species is dis¬ 
tinct by the large light patch in the middle of the cephalothorax. 
Workmanii, which has a smaller patch in the same place, has a 
wide white band behind the dorsal eyes, and is without red 
hairs. The description of comatus reads, to some extent, like 
that of femora tus, but this latter species has no central spot on 
