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Therina fautaria Streck. (3905) is T. endropiaria G. & R. 
(3908), worn and with the lines unusually approximate. I 
have such a specimen from Maine. 
Euchl&na amethystaria Streck. (3959). I cannot separate 
it from Gonodontis hypochraria H.-S (3941). 
Priocycla jucundaria Streck. (3992) appears to me an aber- 
rational form of P. armantaria H.-S- (3990). 
Sabulodes nonangulata Streck. (4021) is probably only a 
variety of S". caberata Gn. (4020). 
Family COCHLIDIID^). 
Kronaa minuta Reak. The types should be in the Strecker 
collection; a specimen of the European Hcterogenea asella 
is so labelled, but of course incorrectly. 
The following paper was then read by title: 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AMERICAN SPIDERS. 
BY NATHAN BANKS. 
In the following pages are descriptions of some sixteen 
new spiders from various parts of our country, most of them 
from the far West. They are presented now as I wish to 
have them in a catalogue of our spiders which is now about 
ready for publication. Among them are three genera new 
to the United States. 
Modisimus texanus, n. sp. 
Cephalothorax pale yellowish, with a broad, median, black stripe, taper- 
ing a little behind, eyes on black spots, but the middle of the eye-tubercle 
is pale, two black stripes from eyes down upon clypeus, and fainter on 
mandibles; legs pale, femora with from 6 to 12 brown marks below, 
near apex forming rings, the last preapical and broader than others, a 
mark over articulation of patella and tibia, and a preapical band on tibia 
brown. Sternum brown, pale in middle, abdomen pale, with many black 
and white spots above and behind, leaving a pale median stripe and a 
line each side; venter pale, with a median black dot. Eyes upon a 
considerable elevation, almost as high as length of mandibles; A. M. E. 
practically wanting. Legs very slender, femur i over four times as long 
as cephalothorax; abdomen high, subglobose, rather pointed at spinnerets ; 
epigynum projecting forward in a sharp point. 
Length 2.7 mm. 
Austin, Texas, March, kindly given me by Prof. J. H. Corn- 
stock. 
