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many different species of plants, the Compositae and Labiatae 

 seeming to furnish specially acceptable food for the pest. No 

 Eastern specimens were in the infested herbarium, so that no 

 special confirmation of Dr. Riley's observation that only Western 

 specimens are attacked is derivable from the condition of Prof. 



Dudley's herbarium. 



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ARACHNIDA FROM THE MALASPINA GLACIER, ALASKA. 



By NATHAN BANKS. 



THERIDID^E. 

 Erigone sp. 



One specimen ( 9 ) not determinate from this sex. 



LYCOSID^:. 



Lycosa fumosa Em. 



Canadian Spiders 1894. 



One specimen ( 9 ) appears to be this species, but differs in 

 having a distinct yellowish mark or interrupted band on all of 

 the femora, and the anterior pair have another yellow mark on 

 the outside near the tip. The epigynum is perhaps a little 

 narrower than Emerton figures it ; the eyes are as he describes 

 them. 



Pardosa groenlandica Thor. 



Spiders from Greenland 1872. 

 One specimen ( 9 ) is close to the L. sinistra form described 



from Colorado. 



PHALAGID/E. 

 Phlegmacera bryantii n. sp. 



Length 2.5 mm., femur IV 2.4 mm. Blackish, abdomen rather paler, 

 especially at the tip; clothed on the venter with stiff, erect, black bristles, 

 those on coxce and mandibles longer ; palpi with short stiff hairs ; cepha- 

 lothorax smooth ; eye- tubercle rather low, very broad, large eye each 

 side ; mandibles large ; third joint of palpi nearly as long as width of the 

 cephalothorax, cylindrical ; fourth a little longer, of same size ; fifth not 

 half as long as fourth ; clavate. Trochanters slightly tuberculate ; (first 

 and second pairs of legs lost), femur and tibia III with two false articula- 

 tions, femur and tibia IV with five or six false articulations, numerous on 

 metatarsi and tarsi, abdomen short, broadly rounded at tip. 



One specimen (9). July 4. J< ^97 : collected by Mr. H. G. 

 Bryant, in honor of whom the species is named. It differs from 

 both of our known forms by its darker color, broader eye-tubercle, 

 and false articulations in the posterior femora. 



