Peckham—Spiders of the Family Attidae. 251 
a band of white hairs. Where the hairs are rubbed off, in the 
female, the color below is yellow. In the male the cephalic 
part is darker than the rest of the cephalothorax, and the ab¬ 
domen, which is a good deal rubhed, is black and glabrous with 
a thin scattering of white hairs. Under alcohol the coloring 
of the legs is as follow's: In the male all the femora are dark, 
those of the third pair being a little lighter than the others. 
The first leg has the patella and tibia yellow, the metatarsus 
dark, and the tarsus pale yellow. There are indistinct, longi¬ 
tudinal dark lines on the front and back sides of the patella 
and tibia. The second leg, excepting the femur, is light. The 
third leg has the patella yellowish-brown with a dark line in 
front, and the tibia, metatarsus and tarsus yellow. In the 
fourth leg the proximal half of the patella is light and the 
distal half is brown. The tibia, and metatarsus are brownish 
yellow and the tarsus paler. The coxss of the first and sec¬ 
ond pairs are light, of the third and fourth, dark. The tro¬ 
chanters of the first, second and fourth are light, the third, dark. 
In the femjale the first leg has the proximal two-thirds of the 
femur and the whole of the metatarsus dark. The other parts 
are yellow with a narrow, dark, longitudinal line on each side, 
running as far as the metatarsus. The second leg is yellow, 
with a wide, dark, longitudinal band on each side, running as 
far as the metatarsus. The third leg has the femur dark and 
the other joints yellow. There is one longitudinal dark hand 
on the patella, and a dark line on each side of the tibia and 
metatarsus. The fourth leg has the femur dark, the patella 
dark at the ends with a yellow ring in the middle, the tibia 
and metatarsus brown, but not so dark as the ends of the pa¬ 
tella, and the tarsi yellow r . The coxse of the first and second 
legs are light; of the third, dark; and of the fourth, part dark 
and part light. The sternum, maxillge and labium are brown. 
The falces are brown, and nearly vertical. The palpus is brown 
with a palette-shaped tarsus. 
We have one female, collected by Mr. Lightfoot at Retreat 
Flats, and one male, collected by Mr. Purcell at Devil’s Moun¬ 
tain, Cape Colony. 
