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as long as broad, sides rounded, head high, projecting over clypeus ; eyes 

 subequal, posterior eye-row recurved, P. M. E. one and one-half their 

 diameter apart rather farther from the equal P. S. E., A. M. E. smaller, 

 about twice their diameter apart and scarcely so far from the barely larger 

 A. S. E., which latter are only slightly separated from the P. S. E., the A. 

 M. E. are in the upper anterior margin of the elevated head ; mandibles 

 small, weak, slightly divergent ] palpi large and hairy, last joint heavy ; 

 maxillae including labium ; sternum convex, broadest at middle, truncate 

 between hind coxfe, legs of moderate length, IV. pair longest, no spines, 

 but with many scattered stiff bristly hairs, one almost spinelike, erect 

 near tip ofpatellte; tibia III. scarcely longer than patella III. ; abdomen 

 nearly twice as long as broad, rounded at base, pointed behind, convex 

 above, and with many scattered pale hairs. Two specimens of this very 

 pretty and distinct species : one collected by Mr. Pratt in April, at ^Vash- 

 ington, D. C., is not quite adult ; the other taken at Falls Church, Va., in 

 June. 

 Coleosoma jforidana, n. sp.; C. blanda, Keys., nee Cambr. 



This is very evidently not Cambridge's species, which has a shorter 

 cephalothorax, more prominent clypeus, differently marked abdomen, less 

 constricted, and the palpus is different. Otherwise it is similar. Keyser- 

 ling's description is very good. It would seem very strange for a spider 

 to be described from Ceylon and then recorded from Florida without 

 being known from any other tropical regions. One male was collected 

 by Mrs. A. T. Slosson in Florida. 

 Afgyrodes Jloridajia, n. sp. 



Length, 2.6 mm. Cephalothorax dark brown ; mandibles pale at 

 base, blackish towards tips ; palpi black, except pale tips ; sternum 

 blackish ; legs pale uniform whitish ; abdomen blackish, jet black around 

 spinnerets, paler above ; cone pale. Cephalothorax of moderate length ; 

 eyes scarcely elevated ; clypeus sloping ; palpi enlarged ; sternum convex ; 

 legs slender, of moderate length ; abdomen very high at base, continuing 

 nearly straight back and at tip with a prominent blunt-pointed cone 

 behind, vertical to the spinnerets ; abdomen one and one-half longer than 

 broad, higher than broad. 



One female from Punta Gorda, Florida. (Mrs. Slosson.) Readily 

 known by shape of abdomen, dark coloured abdomen and pale legs. 

 Crnstulina borealis, n. sp. 



Length, c^ , 1.8 mm. Similar to C. sticta, but the abdomen wholly 



