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 fourth metatarsi entirely reddish brown; first three pairs of tarsi yellowish, fourth pair reddish brown with yellowish tips. Carapace: rich reddish brown, almost black around eyes; a broken white stripe extends on each side from ALE to posterolateral corner and down to posterior border; a few white scales along ventral margin; central part of clypeus between AME without whitw scales which extend as a tuft beneath AME and over front surface of chelicerae and, less conspicuously, laterally along cheek region. Abdomen: dark reddish brown at base; then a series of light and dark bars on dorsum best shown in Figure 217; thus nine distinct dorsolateral bars; venter dull brown.

Female. Characters briefly summarized by Banks ('29). Epigynum with a deep central posterior marginal notch and a median swelling separating two shallow cavities (Fig. 218).

Type locality. Male allotype from Canal Zone Biological Area, June, 1939. Male paratypes and females from the following localities: El Valle, R. P., July 1936; Canal Zone Forest Reserve, C. Z., July–Aug., 1939; Canal Zone Biological Area, June, Aug., 1939.

Avitus diolenii F. Cambridge, 1901 A. diolenii Simon, 1901 A. diolenii Petrunkevitch, 1911 A. diolenii Petrunkevitch, 1925

The Peckhams had a single male from Panama sent to them by Count Keyserling. So far as I know, the species has not been collected since that time. It has not yet appeared in my collection. I have a single male from the Canal Zone Biological Area, Aug., 1939, which I have tentatively assigned to this genus. It is a damaged specimen and will not be described in this paper. When better specimens are available it will certainly have to be described as a new species and possibly will be the basis of a new genus.

Professor Petrunkevitch ('25) considered that six species of the genus Beata were known at the time of his paper on Arachnida from Panama. He gave a detailed description of the female of B. magna