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Color of alcoholic specimens a rather bright brown in all the chitinized 

 parts, the shade depending upon the degree of chitinization. 



Three specimens of this species, secured by Mr. Hubbard at 

 Palm Springs, California, two males and one female, No. 41, 

 have been examined. 



The habits of Hubbardia are detailed in the following field 

 notes which show that Mr. Hubbard appreciated at once the 

 novelty and interest of his discovery : 



"PALM SPRINGS, CAL., Febr. 8, 1897. 



; ' On February yth I walked up to the mouth of a small canon from 

 which issues a considerable stream of cold water. . . . Under a stone close 

 to the water I captured a remarkable little Arachnid, very closely allied 

 to Thelyphonus, but slender and brown in color, and only about \ of an 

 inch long. It ran like a ground spider, with its long bristle tail laid over 

 its back I saw two specimens, but took only one, as I thought at first it 

 was one of those ant-like spiders." 



"PALM SPRINGS, CAL., Febr 13, 1897. 



"To-day I found a second specimen of that remarkable Arachnid which 

 lives under debris of leaves or stones near the pools on the shores of 

 mountain streams. My first specimen was about \ of an inch long; the 

 one I found to-day is half again as large. It is very elongate and slender, 

 and dusky red-brown in color, and has long antennae-like front legs, the 

 chelicers having but a single visible claw. The small specimen which I 

 found the other day appeared to me to have a long bristle tail closely 

 allied to its back, but when I took it out of the vial the next morning it 

 was tailless. The specimen taken to-day has a most remarkable lanceolate 

 appendage attached by a short and slender articulation to the tip of the 

 long tapering abdomen. The thighs of the hind legs in this specimen are 

 very thick and stout, and undoubtedly the two specimens are different 

 sexes." 



"PALM SPRINGS, CAL., March 6, 1897. 



"... Collected under stones along sides of water courses from Small 

 West canon and got . . . both sexes, i specimen of each of the new 

 Arachnid near Thelyphonus." 



In connection with Hubbardia it is permissible to refer to 

 another related animal which I had collected in Liberia and pre 

 sented at a meeting of the Society last year, giving it the name 

 Ai'tacarus liber tens is. 



A close relationship with Schizomus was admitted, but the 

 discrepancies of Cambridge's description (as Nyctalops) seemed 

 to forbid reference to that genus. 



Learning immediately afterwards that Professor Kraepelin, of 

 Hamburg, was engaged in a revision of the whip-scorpions and 



