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probably require another specific name when the penis of the type 

 of gracile shall have been examined. 



Telebasis digiticollis Calvert. Cayuga, house, October 25, 1 9 . 



Metaleptobasis bovilla Calvert. Cayuga, house, September 2, 

 1917, 1 $. 



The single (type) $ was imperfect, wherefore the following: 

 rhinarium and labium yellow, anlennal joints following the second 

 very slender, blackish. Prothorax orange, unmarked, hind lobe 

 low, convex, apparently entire. The transverse basal pale rings on 

 abdominal segments 2-8. Ultra-nodal sector (Mia) arising at the 

 ninth postnodal on the hind wings (11 postnodals in hind wings), 

 upper sector of triangle (Cul^l ending at level of eighth or ninth 

 postnodal (front wings) or eighth (hind wings). 



Mr. Williamson also has described a single male of this spe- 

 cies from near Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, taken June 23, 1909. 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 48, pp. 602, 604, 1915.) 



Palaemnema sp. Cayuga, forest. April 2,">, 1 teneral $, abd. segs. 

 7-10 lacking. 



Neoneura aaroni Calvert. Cayuga, house, bath-room, August 28, 

 1 $ , of the very young stage (a) of the original description (Bio- 

 lom'a. p. 139), the hind wing a little longer, (18 mm.). 



This species has not been found previously south of Texas. 

 Additional figures have been published by Mr. Williamson 

 (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xliii, p. 241, 1917). 



The Flights of Spiders in the Autumn of 19 18 



(Arach., Aran.). 

 By J. H. EMERTON, Boston, Massachusetts. 



The Indian summer of 1918 came on early, and continued 

 in periods of two or three days at short intervals until the last 

 of November. October 9 was one of the first of these davs. 

 and at noon eight species of spiders were noticed on. garden 

 fences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, some of them making ef- 

 forts to fly. Eavorable weather continuing the next day, T went 

 to my usual autumn hunting ground at Readville, just south 

 of Boston, where a long stretch of wire fences furnish landing 

 places for the spiders flying from several miles of marsh along 

 the Neponset River. Twenty-eight species of spiders were 

 found between the hours of ten and twelve, most of them of 



