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immaculate yellow. Legs yellow, with all joints excepting tarsi banded 

 with black annuli, which on the femora of the first legs are confluent, and 

 on the other joints of the same legs are partially so. Abdomen above 

 black, at sides minutely punctate with yellow ; at base a lanceolate yellow 

 mark, having at each side behind middle a small ovate yellow spot, with 

 black dot at centre, and each side of its apex a larger triangular yellow 

 spot; behind is a series of chevron-shaped transverse marks, which become 

 successively shorter caudally, the last few being diamond-shaped and con- 

 tiguous with each other by their apices. Sides of abdomen above like 

 lateral part of dorsum, but with black reduced to spots over a yellow field 

 below. Venter yellow, dusky in front of genital furrow, and with a dusky 

 median stripe behind epigynum extending only pait way to the spinnerets 

 Anterior row of eyes but slightly procuived, shorter than the second ; 

 anterior median eyes two-thirds their diameter apart closer to the smaller 

 lateral eyes ; anterior lateral eyes three-fourths their diameter from front 

 margin ofclypeus, their diameter from eyes of second row; eyes of second 

 row two-thirds their diameter apart ; quadrangle of i:)Osterior eyes ore- 

 fourth as long as the cephalothorax, a little wider in front than long. 

 Epigynum behind at middle shallowly indented or angularly excavated, the 

 side lobes widely rounded. 



Length, 3.9 mm. Length of cephalothorax, i.S mm.; width, 1.4 mm. 

 Length of leg iv., 7.3 mm. (of tibia 4- patella, 2,3 mm.). 



Locality: Virginia, North Carolina. One specimen from the 

 former locality and two from the latter in company with specimens of 

 P. bilobata (Tully). The female of this species is nearest P. humicolics^ but 

 among other points differs clearly in the form of the spermathecas. In 

 aspirans the spermathecf« lie entirely in front of their openings, whereas in 

 Iiumicolus ihis is not the case. Both these species may be separated from 

 jninula by the fact that in ihem the inferior margin of the chelicer?e is 

 aimed with three teeth, mimita having but two. The male ol aspirans is 

 conspicuously different in the form of the scopus. 



Allocosa degesia, sp. nov. — 9- Cephalothorax shining black, of 

 reddish lustre. Chelicenc the same. Labium and endites brown. Legs 

 nearly as m /u/itrea, but light marks on femora more obscure and less 

 contrasted on other joints between the light and dark rings. Sternum 

 reddish brown, d^rk about margins, lighter, more yellowish over middle 

 area. Abdomen above nearly as in funcrea ; venter yellow, with a {^-^ 

 faint dark dots at sides. Spinnerets yellow. Epigymim brown, weakly 

 reddish at borders. 



