432 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 
The coloring of the abdomen is doubtful. It seems to have 
been golden, or reddish-yellow on either side of the middle 
(where, in rubbed specimens, the integument ,is pale), with a 
white basal hand and the usual pattern of white spots down the 
middle, consisting of a pair on the. front part, a central white 
triangle, and two pairs of bars on the posterior part, which form 
a parenthesis only when the abdomen is rubbed. There are no 
white diagonals on the sides but the reddish hairs tend to 
form many lighter and darker diagonal streaks. The venter 
is pale yellow, sometimes darker in the middle, with two lines 
of irregular light spots bordered with dark, which converge to¬ 
ward the spinnerets. Even in poor specimens the characteristic 
dark borders of the light spots are visible. 
The epigynes of obscurus 'and carolinensis are distinct. In 
the drawing, the anterior shield appears broken. The two 
parts are sometimes united in the middle, the anterior part be¬ 
ing lighter than the posterior. 
We have numerous females from Georgia and Texas. 
PHIDIPPUS BASALIS' B. 1904. 
Plate XXXV, figs. 4—4a. 
1904. Phidippus basalis B. $, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XII, 2, p. 115. 
2 . Length 12 mm. Legs 1423. 
The cephalothorax is dark brown, darkest on the cephalic 
plate. The clypeus is covered with gray hairs. The falces are 
dark, not iridescent, the upper parts covered with brown hairs. 
The abdomen has the whole front end yellow. Behind this it 
is black, marked with a pair of white spots in front of the mid¬ 
dle, with two pairs of transverse white bars on the upper sides, 
and a pair of spots over the spinnerets. The legs are dark with 
many black and white hairs. 
Mr. Banks has a single female from Arizona. 
