THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 185 



SOME NEW SPIDERS. 



BY NATHAN BANKS, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Poecilochroa mimita, n. sp. 



Length $ , 4 mm.; ceph., 1.7 mm. long, i.i broad, patella plus tibia 

 IV., 1.6 mm. Cephalothorax uniform reddish yellow, legs and palpi a 

 trifle paler, except metatarsi IV. which are reddish brown ; sternum 

 yellowish ; abdomen black, with short white hairs and some longer black 

 ones at base ; venter with a pale streak each side ; spinnerets red-brown. 

 Head narrow ; posterior eye row slightly recurved, longer than anterior 

 row, the P. M. E. round, their diameter apart and as near the P. S. E. as 

 to each other, equal in size ; eyes of anterior row subequal, all close 

 together. No plate under fang of mandibles. Legs quite hairy, but the 

 scopulas not dense ; femora with three or four very large spines above, 

 each spine longer than the posterior eye row ; no spine above on tibia 

 IV., one below at tip of tibia I. Sternum narrow, nearly twice as long as 

 wide. Abdomen slender, no wider than cephalothorax, spinnerets 

 large, an interrupted ventral fold near their base. The tibia of the male 

 palpus has on the outer tip a large, stout, slightly curved projection one- 

 half the length of the tarsus and blunt pointed at tip ; the palpal organ is 

 swollen near middle, the style is short. 



One male ; Brazos Co., Texas. 



Cybceodes (?) iticerta, n. sp. 



Length 5, 4.5 mm. Cephalothorax brownish yellow, darkest in 

 front and black around each eye ; mandibles rather darker than cephalo- 

 thorax; legs and sternum pale yellowish, abdomen pale gray, thickly clothed 

 with rather long white hairs and longer black bristles, mostly at base. 

 Cephalothorax once and a half longer than wide, broad and low in front. 

 Eyes in two rows close to each other, hind row about straight, longer 

 than the anterior row ; the posterior eyes larger than the anterior eyes ; 

 P. M. E. closer to equal P. S. E. than to each other ; A. M. E. about as 

 close to each other as A. S. E., dark coloured. Clypeus narrow ; mandi- 

 bles large, porrect, slightly divergent, front margin with three teeth, hind 

 margin with two smaller teeth, fang long and stout ; maxillae twice as 

 long as broad, rounded at tip, scarcely inclined, plainly obliquely im- 

 pressed ; lip longer than broad, rounded at tip. Sternum longer than 

 broad, truncate in front, sides rounded ; legs rather large, of moderate 

 length ; all femora shorter than the cephalothorax, clothed with hairs and 

 spines, tibia I. with one spine near base, two towards tip ; metatarsus I. 



