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Carapace light brown to dark reddish brown with a light yellow 
to pale orange median stripe, with two dark oblong spots within the 
median stripe anteriorly as in Figure 6, and with light submarginal 
stripes. 
Dorsum of abdomen with yellowish ground color heavily pig¬ 
mented with dark brown or gray producing a pattern as in Figure 6. 
Venter cream to pale yellow with scattered dark spots, heaviest 
along sides. 
Legs pale yellow to yellow-orange with dusky markings, which 
are more prominent dorsally. 
Labium and endites yellow to light brown with distal ends cream. 
Sternum cream to yellow. 
Color. Male. Face light orange-brown, yellowish along lower 
edge of clypeus. Chelicerae yellow-orange to light orange-brown. 
Cymbium of palpus yellow-orange with dark sclerites visible 
through integument. 
Carapace orange-brown to brown with wide median yellow 
stripe, with two dark spots within median stripe anteriorly as in 
female, and with lighter irregular submarginal stripes not as distinct 
as in female. 
Dorsum of abdomen medium brown produced by yellowish 
ground color speckled with dark brown or gray spots. Cardiac area 
solid yellowish brown to brown. Venter cream to pale yellow with a 
few to many scattered dark spots. 
Legs yellow to light brownish yellow with dusky markings above. 
Labium and endites yellow, lighter distally. Sternum yellow. 
Measurements. Ten females and ten males from Florida. 
Females: 
Mean 
R,ange 
Mean 
Range 
Ant. Eye Row 
.728 
.66- .82 
Femur I 
2.46 
2.2- 2.8 
PME 
.876 
.80- 1.00 
Pat.-Tibia 1 
3.16 
2.8- 3.6 
PLE 
1.100 
1.01- 1.24 
Meta. I 
1.74 
1.4- 2.0 
POQ 
.799 
.72- .94 
Tarsus I 
1.16 
1.0- 1.4 
Total I 
8.48 
7.1- 9.8 
Carapace 
Width 
2.82 
2.5 - 3.4 
Femur IV 
3.00 
2.5- 3.4 
Carapace 
Length 
3.92 
3.5 - 4.7 
Pat.-Tibia IV 
3.70 
3.2- 4.2 
Body Length 
8.64 
7.6 - 9.4 
Meta. IV 
3.38 
3.0- 3.8 
Pat.-Tibia 11 
2.92 
2.5 - 3.4 
Tarsus IV 
1.50 
1.4- 1.6 
Pat.-Tibia III 
2.65 
2.2 - 3.0 
Total IV 
11.58 
10.0-13.0 
