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Dorsum smooth maculosum 



Dorsum granulate. . , . .grande 



( Metatarsus I., with one false articulation calif ornicas 



\ Metatarsi I., with several false articulations 2 



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Leptobunus grande, Say. 

 Liobunum si mi lis, Weed. 



Va, D. C, Ohio, 111. 

 Leptobunus maculosum, Wood. 



Pa., W. Va., Ohio. 

 Leptobunus calif omicus, n. sp. 



Length, 6.6 mm. ; femur I.. 2.7 mm. 



Colour — white above, mottled with brown and black, the vase mark 

 indefinite; beneath whitish, with a few brown spots; legs yellowish, with an 

 apical brown ring on each joint. Eye-tubercle low and smooth ; body 

 smooth ; legs smooth, except the tarsi, which have spines at each articu- 

 lation. Legs quite stout ; metatarsus I. with one and tibia II. with two 

 false articulations ; palpi with the fourth joint longer than the third ; fifth 

 joint about equal to the third and fourth together. 



Southern California (Davidson). 



Liobunum, Koch. 

 Forbesium, Weed. 



The genus Forbesium is based on young forms of previously described 

 species. Liobunum is very rich in species ; many forms remain to be 

 described. I will mention but one, readily recognized by having two 

 large yellow spots. 

 Liobunum bimaculatum, n. sp. 



Length, 4.2 mm. ; width of abdomen, 3.5 mm. ; femur I., 11.9 mm. ; 

 iemur II., 19.5 mm. 



Colour — dark brown, with two large yellow spots over the juncture of 

 the cephalothorax and abdomen : the eye-tubercle black ; venter, palpi 

 and legs yellowish ; patellae and tibiae at tip brownish ; metatarsi and tarsi 

 somewhat brownish. Body short and broad ; the end of abdomen bent 

 under ; the side-pieces of the sternum appear to be completely separated 

 from the sternum proper ; coxae, venter and sternum with a few granules. 

 Eye-tubercle moderately high ; more than its length from the anterior mar- 

 gin, and with two rows of spines above. Abdomen with a few transverse 

 rows of small, stiff hairs. Legs extremely long, with some small spine s 



