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Habitat. Southern States. Alabama, at the entrance of 

 limestone caves. 



A female was found in Alabama in June, with a body re- 

 sembling an orbicular cocoon, which she carried in her cheli- 

 ceres. On tearing the silk covering, it was found to contain a 

 Clubiona, which was thus wrapped up for future meals. 



[?, length 8 mm.; cephalothorax 2 mm.; legs 48.5, 35, 27.2, 34.5. 

 6, " 6.4 mm.; " 2 mm. ; legs 47.5, 34.5, 25.4, 30. 



PI. 21, fig. 18, palpus of e. 



Salem, Mass., July 10, in a cellar near a window. When disturbed they 

 hung by their feet and swung the body round in a circle so fast as to be 

 hardly visible. July 12, females carrying cocoons of eggs in their mandi- 

 bles. The cocoons were so thin that eggs could be plainly seen. Eggs laid 

 July 30, hatched Aug. 11. 



Pholcus phalangioides Blackw., Spiders of Gt. Britain and Ireland, j. h. e.] 



Subgenus Oophora 1 Mihi. 

 [Spermophora Hentz] Silliman's Journal, Vol. XLi, p. 116. 



Characters. Cheliceres short, cylindrical; maxillce wide at 

 base, tapering to a point, inclined over the lip ; lip short, ividest 

 at base ; eyes six, equal, three on each side, placed together in the 

 form of a triangle ; feet slender, moderately long, first pair long- 

 est, the fourth and the second nearly equal, the third shortest. 



Habits. Araneides sedentary, making in obscure places an 

 excessively loose and slender web, composed of a few threads 

 crossed in various directions. Eggs not enclosed in a cocoon, 

 but agglutinated together, which the mother carries between 

 her cheliceres. 



Remarks. This subgenus is very closely related to Pholcus. 

 Nay, had it eight eyes instead of six, and were its legs much 

 longer, it could not have been separated from that subdivision 

 [286] of Aranea. But it is obvious that these characters re- 

 quire the separation. 



The spider upon which the subgenus is constituted has habits 



1 [Originally published as Spermophora. See " Silliman's Journal," as above 

 cited; also this work, p. 14, where the article from Silliman's Journal is reprinted.— Ed. 



