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The light yellow palpi and dark brown falces are covered with 
white hairs. The legs are brown, the first pair darkest, all cov¬ 
ered closely with long white scales. The central band on the ab¬ 
domen is sometimes broken up into wide chevrons in the anterior 
part, and is borderd with dark behind. The venter has a light 
brown shield-shaped central region, distinctly bordered with 
dark, in the middle of which are sometimes three distinct dark 
lines. 
This species appears in the Britcher Collection from Maine; 
Mr. Cockerell has sent it to us from Albuquerque, Hew Mex¬ 
ico; Mr. Banks found it at Ithaca, Hew York, and we have it 
from Kansas; Austin, Texas; Georgia; South Carolina; Hew 
York and Connecticut. 
PELLENES AMERICANUS KEYS. 1885. 
Plate XLVI, figs. 6—6d. 
1885. Ephipptjs americanus Keys, rf, Verh. z. b. Ges., Wien, Spinnen 
aus Amerika, p. 20. 
1904. PteiXENES speciosa B., Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 3rd Ser., Ill, 13, 
p. 359. 
Length, $ 5.5 mm., 2 5 mm. Legs, $ 3412, 2 3412, first 
pair scarcely stouter than the others. In the male there is 
sometimes a short bright red fringe under the femur of first and 
second. The tarsus of the palpus has a soft bunch of hairs 
varying in color from salmon and pink, to bright raspberry red. 
The male presents so much difference in the coloring of dif¬ 
ferent specimens that Mr. Banks believes there are two species. 
In the form that he describes as speciosa, the cephalothorax is 
black, sparsely clothed with white and gray hair and with a dark 
gray tuft at each anterior corner, which overlaps the heavy 
cream-white crest over the eyes; the clypeus is snow-white; the 
base of mandibles scarlet, with two black spots, apex yellowish; 
the legs are mostly brown with adpressed white, and erect black 
hairs, and the first one has a dense brush of long, bright red hair 
under the apex of the femur, whole of patella, and base of tibia, 
which, when the leg is flexed, projects on each side. The tibia 
