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with two near base, two near middle, and one at tip ; tibia II. with one 

 at base and one towards middle, three under metatarsus II.; tibia3 III. 

 and IV. with (under) two very long ones at base, two long ones at 

 middle, and two much shorter at tip ; above with several ; metatarsi with 

 many long and stout spines ; three claws, the pair with teeth below. 

 Abdomen once and a half longer than broad ; spinnerets are before the 

 tip, two-jointed, lower pair the longest, at base between them is a hump, 

 and at base of this is a transverse furrow; the epigynum shows a short, 

 spoon-shaped septum, leaving each side a curved reddish mark. 



From debris on salt crust 3 Salton, Calif.; March, 1897. (H. G. 

 Hubbard.) I am uncertain of its position, but think it very near 



Therid'nim cinctipes, n. sp. 



Length (J , 1.3 mm.; femur I., i.i mm. long. Cephalothorax yellow- 

 brown, margins black, blackish around eyes and extending back to the 

 dorsal groove ; abdomen mottled with black and white, two pairs of small 

 basal Avhite spots, behind these a white stripe with serrate sides gradually 

 narrowing to the spinnerets ; sides with three or four white spots ; venter 

 black, with two prominent silvery spots ; sternum blackish ; legs white, 

 with black bands at ends of joints and on the middle of tibia I. Abdomen 

 moderately high, one and a half times as long as broad ; leg I. very long, 

 femur I. more than twice as long as femur III., tibia I. much longer than 

 the cephalothorax. The male palpal organ is short and compact. There 

 is a transverse mark across its base which has an upward projection near 

 its outer end ; a circular dark bulb is nearer the tip on the outer side, and 

 from it a slender dark tube extends below, across and upward toward 

 the tip, where it ends in a short, pointed sheath ; near base of the sheath 

 there arises a larger, curved, pointed process. 



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Theridiuvi snbterra7ieum, n. sp. 



Length $,3 mm.; tibia I., 1.8 mm. Pale yellowish, legs rather 

 darker, a dark trifurcate mark on the cephalothorax ; abdomen gray, 

 with some blackish transverse patches in two rows on the dorsum. 

 Cephalothorax highest behind eye-region ; P. M. E. slightly farther from 

 each other than from the P. S. E. ; A. M. E. smaller and less than their 

 diameter apart ; legs quite long, femur I. longer than the cephalothorax, 

 abdomen sub-globose, longer than broad, and as high as broad, clothed 

 (as elsewhere) with long hairs. Epigynum shows a triangular area, with 



