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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL 
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sal eye; the abdomen is dark brown with a white longitudinal 
band down the middle and one on either side. The legs are 
brown, the first pair being much the darkest; the palpi, clypeus, 
and falces are brown; the sternum is black; the anterior coxae 
are very dark brown, the other coxae and the mouthparts light 
brown, and the venter dark brown. 
Habitat. Guatemala.. 
Plexippus puerperus Hentz. 
A “ us Puerperus Hentz. On North American Spiders, 
Silliman s Journal of Science and Arts, xxi., pp. 99-152. 
*' J° tal length 11 mm - Width of abdomen 2.4 mm. 
Oephalothorax: length 4; width 2.4; height 2 8 
Legs 12.3,10.3, 10.5, 10.8. Pat. + tib . j 5 . 4 . pat . + tib . m 
3.c, pat. -f tib. IV r 3.8; metat. -f tar. 3 . 9 . 
,s higi *' ronnded »».he 
cethl ? ° yeS - The “ ph “ lic pM X Of the 
aLct“T ; “ T y pl “ e ’ “ nd Blight ‘y lw:,i ^ lL Tbt 
d„Z“/ M ” r °°° ded ' bM “ U steep,p fr “ lht 
The quadrangle of the eyes is wider tL«n l i • _ 
litflp i i • i wmer tlian long, and is a 
nttie wider behind than in front tl 0 ^ 4 • 6 ’ . , . 
visible fr«rv» i • -the anterior row, which is 
visible from above, is moderately curved- -in 
i J vea > Hie middle eyes are 
btouchmg, and are scarcely twice as large as the lateral eyes 
the lateral being separated from the middle eyes bv x 12 
twice as far f rom the dorsal , .” d r °" “» PWd act quite 
eyes ate a little smaller than” TlTte^l a ‘d In “ 
than their diameter inside the marain 1 “ ? 
each other than from the lateral borders ’ The oT 
high as the large middle eyes. 1 ° lypeU8 13 ^ as 
The falces are stout, being a little wider tlnmir « i c 
eyes, and are flattened in front- thev ! the r ° W ° 
face, parallel and vertical. The faj & “ lo “ g aS the 
stout. ‘ 18 s h° r t and moderately 
The mcixilke are long and Dari 11 p1 i 
rounded at the extremity. The khim ’. ei ^ larged and slightly 
1 18 but little longer than 
