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shaped about as in cratczgi. Color : pronotum of univitlata cinerous, 

 punctured with blackish, and marked as in our other species with three 

 black points over each eye, and a vertical black line before reaching to 

 the tip of the dorsal horn ; the punctures are fewer and more shallow 

 toward the shoulders, leaving these parts paler; dorsal ridge marked with 

 a broad white line, bordered with brown and extending from the tip of 

 the horn to the apex of the elytra. This dorsal white line is a little nar- 

 rower in godingi, and may become diffuse before the posterior tip 

 through coalesance with a transverse, pale, anteapical band, which is more 

 or less strongly indicated in this species. The anterior black vertical line 

 is usually broken in godingi, and the punctures are concolorous with the 

 surface of the pronotum which is marked as in cratcegi, but usually with 

 the pattern less clearly contrasted. The markings of this latter species 

 are well represented by Emmons in the Nat. Hist, of N. Y. Agriculture 

 vol. v, pi. iii, fig. 2, but he has figured the dorsal horn as longer and more 

 slender than in any specimen I have seen. 



The male of godingi scarcely differs from that of univittata, 

 the characteristic markings being almost obliterated by dusky 

 mottlings. In cratcegi the markings are as clearly defined as in 

 the female, but the dorsal horn is less elevated, though of about 

 the same form as in the female. 



This is an interesting addition to our described Membracidae, 

 of which I have taken a number of individuals about Buffalo, 

 mostly on bushes of wild black cherry in June and July. 



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SOME MISSOURI SPIDERS. 



By NATHAN BANKS. 



The following spiders were collected in Missouri by my friend, 

 Mr. Gilbert Van Ingen, in 1890. They were captured mostly 

 near Springfield, in the southwestern part of the State: 



DRASSID^E. 



Micaria agilis nov. sp. Length 5 mm. Cephalothorax, mandibles and 

 sternum yellow, or pale yellowish brown ; legs white, base of femur 

 i brown, posterior pairs faintly lineated with brown ; abdomen gray or 

 blackish, with golden scales, distinctly constricted just before the middle, 

 where there is an interrupted band of white scales, often another white 

 band nearer the base ; there are some scales near the tip with a greenish 

 reflection ; p. m. e. nearer to the p. s. e. than to each other. 



I also have it from Washington, D. C., and Sea Cliff, N. Y. 

 It is readily recognized by its generally pale color. It may have 



