19C) THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I. not quite twice as long as femur III., metatarsus I. barely longer than 

 tibia L; abdomen higher than long, globose ; region of epigynum 

 swollen ; there is a small median triangular black projection or finger. 

 Brazos Co., Texas ; Sept. 



PlcBsiocrcerius iobiceps, n. sp. 



Length 1.5 mm. Cephalothorax yellowish with a black margin, each 

 eye with a black ring, a black line on each side of the lobe ; mandibles 

 yellowish, legs and palpi yellowish, sternum red, black on margins ; 

 abdomen black, spinnerets pale. Head of male moderately elevated into 

 a large lobe, bearing the P. M. E., which are large and scarcely twice 

 their diameter apart ; a hole on each side just behind the S. E.; the 

 mandibles show a series of transverse lines on the outer side ; legs 

 moderately long, first pair longest, no spines above on the tibise ; sternum 

 broad, triangular, bluntly pointed behind. Male palpi quite long ; the 

 tibia with a broad extension above and a hook on the inner side ; the 

 tarsus short, truncate at tip ; the bulb, in side view, is constricted near 

 the middle, the upper part crossed by two transverse dark lines, the 

 black style coiled around the tip once, a small triangular hook near base 

 of bulb. In the female the head is scarcely elevated ; the epigynum 

 shows a semicircular area limited by a concave ridge in front, from which 

 there extends behind a gradually broadening furrow with its margins at 

 tip, curved outward and backward. 



One from Chicago, 111,, under leaves in October ; others from 

 Salineville, Ohio. (A. D. MacGillivray.) 

 Icius canadensis, n. sp. 



Length $ 5 mm.; ceph. 2.4 mm. long, 1.9 mm. broad ; tibia plus 

 patella IV. 2 mm. The male but little smaller. Cephalothorax red- 

 brown, black in eye-region ; mandibles reddish ; leg I. reddish except 

 the yellowish tarsi, other legs wholly pale yellowish. Sternum infus- 

 cated ; abdomen brownish with a narrow white line around base, and 

 pale chevrons toward tip, venter pale gray, with a straight jet black stripe 

 each side, and a narrow basal median spear-mark ; a black spot each 

 side at base of spinnerets \ in $ more white hair around the A. M. E. 

 Eye-region one and a fourth broader than long, broader behind than in 

 front, first eye-row curved ; eyes of second row half way between dorsal 

 and lateral eyes ; cephalothorax moderately high ; mandibles vertical, 

 with one stout tooth on inner edge of fang-groove. Legs moderately long, 

 IV. pair longest, I. pair very stout, three pairs of spines on the tibia and 



