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with brown and white ; venter pale, with a large light brown spot ; sternum 

 blackish, pale on the margins ; legs brownish, paler at tips, posterior pair 

 indistinctly ringed. Cephalothorax as usual, quadrangle of eyes equally 

 wide in front and behind, eyes of second row half-way between dorsal and 

 lateral eyes. Fourth pair of legs much longer than third ; anterior coxae 

 separated by more than width of lip ; metatarsi IV. spined throughout. The 

 epigynum consists of a circular depressed area, divided by a broad septum, 

 much broader behind than in front, where on each side there is a small 

 dark spot. One female ; Olympia, Washington (T. Kincaid). 



Icius obliquus, nov. sp. 



Length, 2.8 mm.; ceph., 1.2 mm. long, .8 mm. wide. Cephalothorax 

 yellowish-brown, eyes connected by a black band, extending behind and 

 enclosing the dorsal eyes, a few of the radial furrows partly black, margin 

 black ; abdomen yellowish, a {t^\s brownish chevrons near the tip, sides 

 with oblique l)lackish lines, venter suffused with black, two rows of yellow 

 spots ; sternum yellowish, black on edge ; legs yellov/ish-brown, anterior 

 pair stoutest and darkest, with a few black patches, palpi similar, mandi- 

 bles yellowish, black near base, Sides of cephalothorax almost straight, 

 slightly narrowed behind ; eye-region wider in front than behind ; eyes of 

 second row about half-way between dorsal and lateral eyes. Anterior 

 cox* separated by more than width of lip ; fourth pair of legs longest, 

 third nearly as long as first; the three pairs of spines on tibia I. are very 

 long, metatarsus IV. spined only at tip. The tibia of palpus has no pro- 

 jection, the lower part of palpal organ is large, the upper portion is cutoff 

 from that below by a transverse furrow and is twice as wide as long ; the 

 tube is slender, but slightly curved and projects into a large circular cavity 

 in the upper portion of the tarsus. One male and one young female ; 

 Olympia, Washington (T. Kincaid). 



lews monticola, nov. sp. 



Length, 4 mm. $. Cephalothorax red-brown, black on margin and 

 in eye-region, clothed with white scales ; a median row of stiff bristles 

 just above anterior eyes. Legs yellow-brown, the femora darker ; on 

 posterior pairs a black ring at base of tibia, metartarsus and tarsus ; 

 clothed with long black hairs and shorter white scales ; palpi red-brown, 

 clothed with white scales ; sternum dark red-brown ; abdomen blackish 

 (but somewhat discoloured), clothed above with white scales, and below 

 with fine hairs. Cephalothorax moderately long, low and flat, broadest in 



