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coxai separated by width of lip ; leg I. longest and stoutest, but not much 

 longer than leg IV., metatarsus IV. spined only at tip. The palpus is 

 long and slender, a short curved spine at tip of tibia, the tarsus fully twice 

 as long as broad, palpal organ but little convex, divided transversely and 

 the upper part bilobed, behind one of these lobes arises the long and 

 slender tube, which curves toward the middle and extends into a furrow 

 in the upper part of tarsus. One male from Punta Gorda, Florida (Mrs, 

 A. T. Slosson). 



Icius simiiis, nov. sp. 



Length, 4.1 mm.; ceph., 1.6 mm. long, i.i mm. wide. Cephalo- 

 thorax with sides and thoracic part reddish, with a itvr white scales and a 

 marginal stripe of white ; eye-region black, posterior part iridescent ; 

 clypeus with white hairs ; a ridge of white or yellowish hairs above the 

 first row of eyes ; mandibles, legs and sternum reddish, the latter darker 

 than the other parts ; the legs have a black stripe above and one on each 

 side of patella, tibia and metatarsus ; the posterior metatarsi are almost 

 wholly black. Abdomen black, covered with pale scales, not or but 

 slightly iridescent. 



In structure and coloration this is similar to /. elegans, Hentz, but 

 the scales are not as iridescent, there is no pale line around the abdomen 

 of the ? , the legs are more reddish, the S has no brush to tibia I., the 

 tube of palpus much stouter ; the $ is but little larger than the S  The 

 epigynum has a small median rounded excision in the posterior margin ; 

 and two oval holes, about their diameter apart, in front. Several speci- 

 mens from Olympia, Washington, and from Ft. Collins, Colo. Prof. 

 Emerton, in his N. Eng. Attidsv, mentions what is probably this species 

 as a variety of Icii^s elegans. 



Icius sextnaculatus, nov. sp. 



Length, 3.5 mm. ; ceph., 1.4 mm. long, .85 mm. wide. Thoracic 

 part black, with some golden hairs on the anterior edge j sides and thoracic 

 part reddish, mandibles reddish brown; sternum yellowish; dorsum of 

 abdomen red-brown with blackish patches, and with six white spots, two 

 transverse basal ones, two larger, median, more circular ones, and two 

 small preapical ones; beyond the middle pair a few indistinct pale chev- 

 rons ; legs pale yellowish, anterior pair more reddish, especially femora 

 and bands on patellae and tibite; palpi pale; sides of abdomen led-brown; 

 venter pale, with a brown line each side. This species is similar to /. 



