Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Volume 13 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... the white band on the cephalothorax. Phidippus translatus, sp. nov. Of this species we have one female from Santarem. It is so badly rubbed that a color description is impossible, but it appears to be exactly like P. morsitans, excepting in the form of the epigynum. It is the only representative of this geuus that we have seen from South America. Philaeus (Thorell), 1870. PL XXIV, figs. 7-7c. The ccphalothorax is from moderately high to high, massive, and moderately long. The sides slant outward from the upper surface, especially in the males; they are narrowed in front and behind; in one species, bicolor, they are nearly parallel from just behind the second row of eyes to just in front of the posterior border, but in the others they are gently rounded. The cephalic plate is inclined forward. The thoracic plate is short and wide, the thorax slanting from just behind the dorsal eyes. The quadrangle of the eyes is from a little more than onethird wider than long to nearly twice as wide as long, is equally wide in front and behind, or very slightly wider behind, and occupies two-fifths of the cephalothorax. The front eyes form a curved row, and are all separated, the lateral being further from the middle eyes than these are from each other. They are not large, the lateral being more than half the size of the middle eyes. The second row is slightly nearer to the first than to the third. The third row is not so wide as the cephalothorax at that place. The relative length of the legs is 1243, 1423, or 4132. Philaeus chrysis has the second row of eyes plainly nearer the first than the third row, as in Phidippus, but we place it in this genus because the quadrangle of the eyes is but little wider behind than in front. It has, moreover, metallic scales, which are n...