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the median eyes angular and oblique, less than half their longer diameter 

 apart and about four-sevenths that diameter from the laterals. Area of 

 median eyes wider in front than behind. Met. I and II with one spine. 

 Tib. I and II with two seriate spines under anterior border. 



Length, 6.75 mm.; cephalothorax, 2.9 mm.; tib. + pat. IV, 2.29 mm. 



Holotype.~M. C. Z. 577 ( 9 ). 



Locality.— N. Y.: Sea Cliff (type loc); Va.: Great Falls. 



ScoPODES, gen. nov. 



Suggesting Megamyrmecion in eye characters but differing in having a 

 tooth on the lower margin of the furrow of the chelicera and particularly 

 in having a stout median ventral apophysis on bulb of palpus of male. 



Genotype. — S. catharius, sp. nov. 



Scopodes catharius, sp. nov. 



Male. — Carapace and legs light brownish yellow. The sternum clearer 

 yellow. Abdomen grey, its scutum small, yellow. Posterior row of eyes 

 strongly procurved; median eyes elliptic, their radius apart, half as far 

 again from the laterals. Lateral eyes less than their radius apart. Met. 

 I with one spine; II with two spines. Tib. I and II with three pairs of spines. 

 Tib. Ill and IV with a median dorsal spine. 



Length, 6 mm.; cephalothorax, 2.7 mm.; tib. + pat. IV, 3.33 mm. 



Holotype.—M. C. Z. 630 ((^). 



Locality. — Cal.: Claremont. 



Laronia Simon. 

 Ann. Soc. ent. France, 1892, p. 457; Hist. Nat. Araign., 1893, I, p. 379. 

 Genotype.— L. rufithorax Simon. 



Laronia bicolor (Banks). 



Eilica bicolor Banks, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1896, 23, p. 60. 



Holotype.—M. C.Z.70d(d'). 

 Locality. — Fla. : Punta Gorda. 



Gnaphosa LatreUle. 



Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 1804, 24, p. 134. 

 Drassus Walckenaer, Tabl. Aran., 1805, p. 45. 

 Pythonissa C. Koch, Ueb. Ar. Syst., I, 1837, p. 16. 



Genotype. — G. lucifuga Latreille. 



Gnaphosa gigantea Keyserling. 



Verh. Zool-bot. Ges. Wien., 1887, p. 424, f. 3; Comstock, Spider Book, 1912, 



p. 320, f. 311 and 312. 

 Gnaphosa conspersa Thorell, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, 1877, 3, p. 489; 



Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., 1889, p. 176, pi. 4, f. 4; Common 



Spiders, 1902, p. 2, f. 3-5. 

 Gnaphosa distincta Banks, Proc. Acad. Phil., 1901, p. 572 (nee distincta 



Banks, 1898). 



