110 THB CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



hairy ; claws short, stout, outer broadly rounded, with two teeth, one at 

 middle, the other at base, inner claw nearly as long as outer, more 

 slender, with two bristles at tip; tenant hairs piesent; abdomen slightly 

 hairy, more abundant at apex, anal tubercle with a few scattered fringed 

 clavate hairs ; furcula long, slightly hairy above ; manubrium extending 

 half its length beyond the apex of the abdomen, stout ; dentes subequal 

 to the manubrium in length, narrowed beyond the base ; mucrones one- 

 fourth the length of the dentes, apex blunt, slightly serrated at middle 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Habitat : Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York. (Banks, collector). 



Readily recognized by the purple legs and furcula. 



Paph'ius olympiiis, sp. nov. — Reddish, spotted with dark brown, in 

 young specimens purplish; eye spot black; vertex covered with stiff bristles; 

 a longitudinal brown band extending from the back of the head to the 

 eye spot, another in the middle of the vertex, extending down the middle 

 of the front ; antennae nearly as long as the body, purplish, hairy, basal 

 segment light at base, dark at apex, one-fourth the length of the second, 

 second one-half the length of the third, third segment slender, with seven 

 sub-segments at apex, fourth segment with six sub-segments ; abdomen 

 and thorax with two sinuate brown bands on each side of the dorsum, the 

 middle ones meeting at the apex and base of the thorax, and on the basal 

 half of the abdomen, also a band extending from this basal transverse 

 band of the abdomen along the middle of the back towards the head, 

 bilobed in front, a triangular spot just before the apex of the abdomen 

 and promiscuous mottlings on the side, brown ; body covered with broad 

 flattened hairs ; legs long, slender, spiny, reddish ; claws long, outer three 

 times as long as the tibia is broad, with two teeth, inner two-lhirds the 

 length of outer, with a hair at apex reaching beyond the apex of the outer 

 claw ; tenant hair wanting ; furcula slender, long ; manubrium short, two- 

 thirds the length of the dentes ; dentes with a row of long hair-like spines 

 along each side of each member ; mucrones about one-fourth the length 

 of the dentes, serrate beneath. Length, 2-3 mm. 



Habitat ; Olympia, ^Vashington. (Kincaid, collector). 



