June, '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 243 



style is long and slender, somewhat longer at the base than at the apex 

 where there is a long hair. There is also one arising from its upper 

 and lower borders. 



Modified Segments : The eighth sternite is prolonged upwards into 

 a slender process on the ventral edge of which are a number of hairs, 

 giving the appearance of a comb. At the tip there is a hook-like spine. 

 The claspers are broad, the manubrium extending forward as a slender 

 well curved process. The process of the claspers is wide and well 

 rounded at the top, with a row of bristles along its upper and ventral 

 margin, the four upper ones being the largest. Besides this, on its 

 lateral surface, are about six smaller bristles. The finger is leaf- 

 shaped, convex on its posterior margin, its anterior margin being 

 straight, narrower at the tip than at the base with a small pedicle. 



Length of female 2.14 mm. 



Length of male 2.08 



Color pale brown 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 

 Fig. i. Claspers of male. 

 Fig. 2. Head of female. 

 Fig. 3. Inner surface hind coxa. 

 Fig. 4. Genitalia of female. 

 Fig. 5. (a) Last tarsal article hind leg. 



(b) Last tarsal article mid leg. 



(c) Last tarsal article fore leg. 



A New Thomisid. 



BY K. R. COOLIDGE. 

 Misumessus munieri sp. n. 



Ceplialothorax a trifle longer than broad, anteriorly more than half 

 as broad as in the middle, between second and third pair of legs, just 

 as long as tibia or metatarsus I. longer than metatarsus II.; above not 

 very highly arched, in the middle almost the highest, from there to 

 the front only a little inclined, in the back declining obliquely. 



Color, grassy-green, eye-space of caput much lighter and palish ; 

 median fosse, corselet grooves and cephalic suture darker. A scries 

 of three black points in the line of the P. S. E., and also two others, 

 more minute, on median line of caput. 



Rear row of eyes but little procurvcd, almost aligned ; fore row 

 strongly recurved. P. M. E. about equal in size to A. M. E., but 

 smaller than P. S. E. or A. S. E., which are also about equal; M. E. 

 of both rows farther apart than S. E. ; ocular tubercles strong. 



Abdomen subcordate, broadest in the middle, rather pointed before, 

 somewhat depressed; longer than broad. 



