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The male has a bronze-brown cephalothorax and abdomen, 
with metallic reflections. Around the eyes of the first row are 
bright red hairs. White bands pass along the sides of the ceph¬ 
alothorax and encircle the abdomen, which shows, when wet, 
three dark spots on a lighter ground. The clypeus is covered 
with snowy hairs. The falces are brown edged with white hairs, 
and are sometimes short and vertical, and sometimes horizontal, 
and nearly as long as the cephalothorax. When they are short, 
the patella and tibia I do not much exceed the femur, while in 
the other variety these joints, together, are once and a half as 
long as the femur. The first legs are dark brown, except for 
the somewhat lighter tarsi, forming a contrast to the white legs 
of the other three pairs. The palpi are brown except the tarsi, 
which are yellow. The tibia is as wide as long and the patella 
a little longer than wide. The tibial apophysis is as long as the 
joint itself, and is thin, and curved upward at the point. 
In the female, fresh specimens have the whole body covered 
with light gray or white scales mixed with black hairs. Down 
the middle of the abdomen is a series of more or less distinct 
brown chevrons, and on the sides are oblique brown spots and 
lines. The legs and palpi are white. After immersion in alco¬ 
hol the integument of the body turns red, and shows through the 
scales, and the legs change to yellow. In still older specimens 
the red is less marked. There should be no confusion between 
this female, and that of Dendryphantes capitatus, since the ab¬ 
domen in palmarum is twice as long as wide. 
It is reported from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Hew York, 
District of Columbia, Horth Carolina, South Carolina, Alaba¬ 
ma, Florida, Texas. 
ADMESTINA P. 1888. 
Type, Maevia tibialis C. K. 
1848. Maevia C. K. (tibialis), Die Arachn. XIV, p. 78. 
1888. Admestina P., Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Letters, VII, N. A. 
Att., p. 78. 
1892. Admestina B., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 78. 
1894. Admestina P., Occ. Pap. Nat. Hist. Soc. Wis., II, 2, p. 120. 
