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cephalothorax, would alone remove this spider from that sub- 

 division. Moreover, the legs, which in Pholeus are excess- 

 ively long, are here of a moderate length. This spider, which 

 is wholly of a pale hue, makes its very loose web in dark 

 places, under rubbish. The female carries in its mandibles its 

 eggs glued together without any silk, until they are hatched. 

 Inhabits Alabama. 



This species, the one hundred and thirty-seventh of my ms. 

 catalogue, is there named Spermophora meridionalis. Of the 

 one hundred and forty-seven species comprised in this cata- 

 logue, there are not ten mentioned in European works besides 

 those described hy Bosc, whose manuscript was never printed. 

 Florence, Ala., September 2, 1839. 



[From the Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, 54.] 



Art. VI. Descriptions and Figures of the Araneides 

 of the United States. By Nicholas Marcellus Hentz. 



(Communicated July, 1841.) 



The Publishing Committee think it proper to inform the 

 readers of this Journal, that the following article is the first of 

 a series on the Araneides of the United States, which has been 

 offered for publication, by the author, to the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. These descriptions and figures will be fol- 

 lowed hereafter by others, and the whole will form an illus- 

 trated monograph of all the Spiders observed by Professor 

 Hentz in various parts of this country, and will supply a Avant 

 [55] which has been long felt in this department of our Natu- 

 ral History. 



