Peckham—Spiders of the Family Attidae. 
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Heliophanm modicus sp. nov. 
Plate XX; fig. 2. 
$. Length 5 mm. Legs 4312. 
The ground color is black on the cephalothorax, brown on 
the abdomen. The cephalothorax has white bands low down 
on the sides, while the upper surface seems to have been thinly 
covered with yellowish-white hairs. The rings around the 
eyes of the front row are white. The abdomen [has a wide 
herring-bone stripe and an encircling band, white. The legs 
and palpi are pale brown. The falces are weak and vertical, 
and dark brown in color. The very narrow clypeus is marked 
by a white line. 
We have several females from Algoa Bay and Durban. 
Almota gen. nov. 
Plate XX, figs. 1-1 c. 
The cephalothorax is high with the sides parallel and ver¬ 
tical in front, and widening out very slightly behind. The 
cephalic plate is not inclined, but the thoracic part slopes 
rather steeply from the third row of eyes. The quadrangle of 
the eyes is one-third wider than long, is wider behind than in 
front, and occupies fully onedialf of the cephalothorax. The 
front eyes are rather large and close together, in a straight 
row, the middle being twice as large as the lateral. The sec¬ 
ond row is halfway between the other two, and the dorsal eyes, 
which are uncommonly largei, form a row as wide as the cephalo¬ 
thorax at that place. The clypeus is only a line. The ster¬ 
num is truncated in front. The anterior coxae are separated 
by fully the width of the labium, which is about as wide as 
long. The first leg has three pairs of spines under the tibia 
and two pairs under the metatarsus. The spines on the other 
legs are sparse and weak, the metatarsi of the third and fourth 
having apical circles. On the tibiae of these legs the circles are 
incomplete. The falx has a single tooth on the lower margin. 
This genus differs from Cosmophasis in having the front 
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