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our specimen the sides of the. cephalic part are rubbed bare, 
the white band beginning abruptly at the dorsal eyes. There 
is a line of white hairs at the edge of the clypeus which is 
one-third as wide as the middle eyes. The abdomen has a cov¬ 
ering of silky golden hairs. At the front end is a' large patch 
of iridescent white scales with a dark band in front of it and 
two black spots behind. Two transverse bands of these white 
scales cross the dorsum further back, one in the middle, which 
is edged behind by two black crescents, and one at the posterior 
end, which is broken, just in front of the spinnerets, by a 
large, round black spot. The falces are brown. The palpus 
is white with white hairs, except the tarsus, which is dark with 
black hairs. The legs have alternate rings of dark hairs and 
white iridescent scales. The first leg has the femur and pa¬ 
tella dark, the tibia and metatarsus white with dark rings at 
the end, and the tarsus white. 
We have one male. 
Taivula gen. nov. 
The widest point of the cephalothorax is at the dorsal eyes, 
the sides in front being slightly rounded while behind they 
contract sharply. The highest point is also at the dorsal eyes, 
the slope in both directions being rather steep, that behind be¬ 
coming more abrupt after the first third* The quadrangle of 
the eyes occupies half of the cephalothorax, is one-fourth wider 
than long, and is slightly wider behind than in front. The 
anterior eyes are large, the middle close together, the lateral 
slightly separated from them and about half as large. This 
row is slightly curved downward. The second row is halfway 
between the others, and the third is nearly as wide as the ceph¬ 
alothorax., The sternum is narrow and is truncated. The 
front coxse are separated by less than the width of the labium, 
which is plainly longer than wide. The falces bulge out in 
front. There is a single tooth on the lower margin, while the 
upper has two teeth, near together. 
In the female of the type species, T. invisitata , the relative 
length of the legs is 3412. The first and second legs have, be- 
