\5^ jf'i^Bpidei'S captured in Canada. ^ 



connected with a yellowish brown membrane sitnabed within its 

 curvature; their prevailing colour is dark brownii7 vn'm ^fiootji^ 



..liJ ^iiiod aiumaJ. . family Drassid^e. , ^^.^^^^ ^^^^^ . j^^^^,^ 

 ^mod ^hairiioq ai doiGenus Drassus, Walckisv^im'ni i{i^ Jaolijif 

 olisasa i>nfi 8ii«d fbr|4^ j)^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^riobom ^goJ /i^f^q 



,1, Drassus nocturnus, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t,. 1. 

 j,^pi^,;^gi^§^y^l, Vet. Acad. Handl. 183,^,^p. J^6.,y^^.b,^';| 



^BqqB ?^mdmif,o R ffit) i5. Drassus vasifer:^'^ h'ltRniio'Kf ^boviin 



,■ Drassus vasifer, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. 1. 1. p. 620. 

 This species has been found in the United States of Noi*th 

 America as well as in Canada. ' ''' ' '^"^^ * ;" 



■h^ai J'/Bq laqqu 'Family CiNiFLONiDiEbion f^i ',ZB-iod.t-oIcdq 



hoinsbxi/ 'wol .H^oCF-Genus Ciniflo, 5^«cyfczi^. ^^^^^' ^"^''^"^^ ^'^^'^ 



16. Ciniflo Bennetti. 



Length of the female /oths of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax ^; breadth ^; breadth of the abdomen |; length of .dm 

 anterior leg y^^ ; length of a leg of the third pair ^. 



Legs and palpi robust, provided with hairs and sessile spines ; 

 they are of a pale reddish brown colour. First pair of legs the 

 longest, then the fourth, third pair the shortest; the meta- 

 tarsi of the posterior legs are furnished with calamistra. Each 

 tarsus is terminated by three claws ; the two superior ones ai'e 

 curved and pectinated, and the inferior one is inflected near its 

 base, on each side of which a fine curved tooth occurs. Cephalo- 

 thorax large, very convex, glossy, depressed in the posterior and 

 anterior regions, broadly truncated in front, compressed before, 

 with furrows on the sides diverging towards the margins, and an 

 indentation in the medial line; mandibles powerful, conical, 

 vertical, gibbous in front, near the base, and armed with two 

 rows of teeth on the inner surface : sternum plain, oval, pointed 

 at its posterior extremity : these parts, with the maxillse and lip, 

 are dark brown tinged with red, the cephalo-thorax and sternum 

 being decidedly the palest. Abdomen oviform, hairy, convex 

 above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; it is of a 

 dark brown colour, palest on the under side ; a short, obscure, 

 blackish band extends along the middle of the anterior part, on 

 the upper side, the interval between the posterior extremity of 

 which and the spinners is occupied by a series of obscure angular 

 lines of the same hue, whose vertices are directed forwards ; the 

 sides are thickly mottled with blackish spots. Spinners eight, 

 the inferior pair being united to the extremity. Sexual organs 

 dark brown faintly tinged with red, presenting the appearance 



