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Observations. This may be referred to Clubiona, as it bears 

 some affinity to C. celer and others. 

 Habitat. Alabama. May. 



14. Herpyllus ? pygmseus. 

 PI. 11, fig. 16. 



Description. Piceous ; feet and palpi paler ; feet, 4. 2. 1. 3. 

 A very small species. 



Observations. This species is referred to this division with 

 but little hesitation. It is probably not common. It was found 

 wandering. 



Habitat. Alabama. August. 



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Tribe II. Longipedes. Legs slender, long, maxilla} short, 

 truncated. , * 



15. Herpyllus? auratus. 



PI. 11, fig. 15. 



Description. Bright rufous ; abdomen brilliant gold color 

 above and beneath, with four abbreviated white lines above, 

 and four on the sides towards the base, with a tinge of silvery 

 green around the vulva in the female ; feet, filiform, long and 

 slender, dusky towards the extremity, particularly the fourth 

 pair. [460.] 



Observations. This beautiful slender species moves like a 

 mouse, and with such rapidity as to make it quite an arduous 

 undertaking to capture it. The male and female have been 

 repeatedly found with the same colors and marking. One 

 specimen, soon after being inclosed in a glass tube, made a 

 beautifully wrought tent like that of Attus, open at both ends. 

 It would seem that this spider has a fixed place of abode, from 

 which it issues for hunting excursions, for a female was ob- 

 served by some children, several times on the same plant, 

 repeatedly escaping to the ground when pursued, until it was 

 at last taken in the very same spot. A female in a state of 





