Peckham—Spiders of the Family Attidcoe. 211 
faloes are thick, vertical and parallel, with small fangs, and have 
a single conical tooth on the inferior margin. 
This is a slender, brilliant species. The ground color 1 is 
black with iridescent reflections, and the markings are formed 
of thick white scales w T hich are also iridescent. The cephalic 
part is covered with these scales and there is a central longitud¬ 
inal band on the thoracic part. A band in the middle of each 
side extends from the lateral eye halfway through the 1 thoracic 
part. The abdomen, wdiich is narrow and tapering, has a cen¬ 
tral band throughout half its length, from the end of which a 
bright pink and green iridescent band extends to the spinnerets. 
On the sides are two or three parallel pairs of oblique white 
bands, the ends of the first pair meeting the central band at an 
angle, at the front end of the abdomen. On the sides of the 
iridescent band which occupies the posterior half of the dorsum 
are two pairs of transversely elongated spots, which are pure 
white, without iridescence. The external spinnerets are long 
and rather hairy. The clypeus has some long white hairs. 
The palpi are covered with white scales above. The legs are 
dark with mjany patches of white iridescent scales. In the 
third and fourth pairs the tarsi are pure white tipped with 
black. The first leg has the femur, patella and tibia much 
enlarged, and the patella, tibia and tarsus have a short fringe 
of black and white hairs below. Under the tibia are three pairs 
of stout spines, and under the metatarsus, two pairs. The third 
and fourth pairs have some small spines, unlike the type of this 
genus, M. phragmitis, in which these legs are unarmed. 
We have two males and one female from Gazaland, Mashona- 
land, sent by Mr. Marshall. 
Pseudicius Braunsii sp. nov. 
Plate XXVI, figs, 1, la. 
S. $. Length 5 mm. Legs 1432, first much the stoutest in 
both sexes, and longer in the male than in the female. 
The cephalothorax is dark with a white marginal band which 
crosses the clypeus. Above this, on the sides, are reddish hairs. 
