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with black, white and rufns, palpi with distal ends of tibiae and 
all of patellae covered above and below with white hairs, and 
with tarsi black. Venter covered with gray hairs. 
Hentz had this species from South Carolina. Holden and 
Banks report it from Florida, and our examples also come from 
that state. 
While strikingly like Pellenes in appearance, aurata differs 
froim the genus in the form of palpus and epigynum, as well as 
in the relative length of the legs. 
PELLENES E. S. 1876. 
Type, BIPUNCTATUS FABR. 
1845. Atttjs H., Jour. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., Y. 
1846. Attus H., ibid. VI. 
1875. Attus H., Occ. Pap. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., pp. 64-67. 
1876. Pellenes E. S., Ar. Fr., Ill, p. 90. 
1883. Attus P., New or little known Attidae, pp. 4, 7, 17, 20. 
1885. Ephippus Keys., Ver. z. b. Gesell., Wien, p. 506. 
1885. Pellenes Keys., ibid., p. 512. 
1888. Habrocestum P., Wis. Acad. Sciences, Arts and Letters, VII, N. 
A. Att. pp. 58-67. 
1888. Hasarius P., ibid., p. 57. 
1891. Habrocestum E., Trans. Conn. Acad., VIII, pp. 26-27. 
1891. Hasarius E., ibid., p. 25. 
1892. Habrocestum B., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., p. 126. 
1892. Habrocestum B., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., Jan., p. 77. 
1894. Habrocestum E., Trans. Conn. Acad., IX, p. 420. 
1895. Habrocestum B., Can. Ent., pp. 101, 102. 
1900. Habrocestum B., Can. Ent., XXXII, 4, p. 101. 
1902. Evarcha E. S., Hist. Nat. des Araign., 2me Ed., II, p. 708. 
1902. Pellenes B., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., Nov. 1901, p. 591. 
1904. Pellenes B., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XII, 2, pp. 117, 118. 
1904. Pellenes B., Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 3rd S'er., Ill, 13, p. 359. 
1905. Pellenes B., Am. Nat., XXXIX, p. 322. 
1906. Pellenes B., Ent. Soc. Wash., VII, 2-3, p. 99. 
The cephalothorax is high, convex, and a little longer than 
wide, with the cephalic plate inclined, and the thoracic part di¬ 
lated, and somewhat widened out from above downward. The 
quadrangle of the eyes is from one-fourth to one-third wider than 
