Peckham—Revision of the Attidce of North America. 499 
1888. Dendkyphantes elegans g $ P., Trans. Wis. Acad. Sciences, 
Arts and Letters, VII, N. A. Att., p. 37. 
1891. Icius elegans E., Trans. Conn. Acad., VIII, p. 15. 
1901. Ttjtelina elegans E. S., Hist. Nat. Araign. 2me Ed., II, p. 554. 
Length, 8 4.3 mm., $ 5.5 mm. Legs, 8 1423, 2 4123, 
delicate, with longitudinal stripes, femur I slightly enlarged in 
both sexes, tibia I in male with black spot and tuft of black 
hairs at distal end. Spines 8 $ , tib. I 3-3, tib. II 2 below, 
serially; met. I and II 2-2. 
Both sexes are brilliantly iridescent, but the female is darker 
than the male. In the male the integument of the eye-region 
and of the abdomen is black, while the sides and thoracic part 
of the cephalothorax are brown, the whole body being covered 
with greenish-yellow, metallic scales. On the front of the ce¬ 
phalic plate are long tufts of hairs, sometimes black and yellow, 
sometimes whitish, which curve inward and forward. Around 
the lower margin of the cephalothorax is a pure white band, 
continuous behind, but stopping in front under the lateral eyes 
of the first row. The abdomen is without bands or spots. The 
legs and palpi are pale, the legs with a black longitudinal line 
above, sometimes lacking on the tarsi, most conspicuous and 
heavy on the tibia of the first, which has also an inky black 
spot on the inner side of the distal third, from which grows a 
fringe of black hairs. The clypeus and falces are brown, cov¬ 
ered with scales like those on the body. The venter is black 
covered with the same yellow scales. 
In the female the color of the integument is like that of the 
male, but the scales which clothe the body are rosy-purple, green, 
and gold. The white band on the cephalothorax is present and 
also a white basal band on the abdomen. The legs are like those 
of the male except that the femur of the first is nearly all black, 
and that the tibia of the first lacks the black spot and the fringe. 
The clypeus and falces have iridescent scales. The palpus 
has the proximal two joints dark brown and the distal joints 
white. 
The falces are small and the fang short, especially in the fe¬ 
male. The sternum is pointed behind and truncated in front. 
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