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Observations. This is a very distinct species, found hiber- 

 nating in silk tubes under bark, making such tubes when con- 

 fined. The male, with cheliceres not enlarged, was found 

 agreeing with the above description in the minutest particular. 

 This shows beyond any doubt that the species is distinct from 

 S. formica. 



Habitat. Alabama. December. 



[PI. 18, fig. 08, eyes ; PI. 19, fig. 114, lateral view. 8uppl.~\ 



4. Synemosyna picata. 

 PI. 9, fig. 21. 



Description. Black ; legs varied with rufous and black, 

 second pair black beneath, fourth black except the knee which 

 is pale beneath ; palpi pale, basal joint piceous ; feet, 4. 3. 2. 1. 



Observations. This is evidently distinct from the other spe- 

 cies, particularly by its form. I once enclosed a male and a 

 female of this species in a glass tube. They very soon formed 

 separate habitations of silk ; but on the third or fourth day the 

 male was dead near the tent of the female, and she had made 

 a lenticular white cocoon, containing four eggs as large as those 

 of large Araneides. That female had a white streak on each 

 side of the abdomen. 



Habitat. North Carolina, Alabama. 



[Taken in June. /Supplement.'] 



[Continued from Vol. v, p. 370.] 



Genus Thomisus. Walck. 



Characters. Cheliceres small, cuneiform, fang small ; max- 

 illce pointed at tip, more or less inclined over the lip ; lip /><>inted 

 at tip, wider in the middle than at base, as long as, or longer 

 than, half the length of the maxilla? ; eyes eight, equal or sub- 



