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Acknowledgements 
I am grateful to Mr. Dixon Stroud and Dr. Luis Arango for 
generously allowing my family and me to stay at Finca Mozam¬ 
bique, and to Dr. H.W. Levi for kindly identifying the spiders. Drs. 
Levi and F. Vollrath helped with useful references. Financial 
support was provided by the Comite de Investigaciones of the 
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. 
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