Chamherlin — North American Spiders of Gnaphosidae. 157 



Holotype.— M. C. Z. 707 (9). 



Distribution. — New York (Sullivan Co., type loc.) and other eastern 

 states with eastern Canada and westward to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah 

 and California. 



Gnaphosa brumalis Thorell. 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1875, 17, p. 497; Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., 



1889, 8, p. 175, pi. 4, f. 5. 

 Gnaphosa scudderi Thorell, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, 1877, 3, p. 491. 

 Gnaphosa humilis Banks, Proc. Acad. Phil., 1892, p. 19, pi. I, f. 9. 



Distribution. — Canada: Labrador, Anticosti Id., Ottawa, Rocky Mts.; 

 N. H.; N. Y.; Col. 



Gnaphosa sericata (L. Koch). 



Pythonissa sericata L. Koch, Drassiden, 1866, p. 31, pi. 2, f. 21. 

 Herpyllus bicolor Hentz, Jour. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1847, 5, p. 456, pi. 24, f. 4; 



Spiders U. S., 1875, p. 91, pi. II, f. 4, (Nom. preocc. by Hahn, 1831). 

 fDrasstis diversus Blackwall, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1871, ser. 4, 8, p. 433. 

 Gnaphosa sericata Comstock, Spider Book, 1912, p. 321. 



Distribution. — Md.: Baltimore (type loc); Va.; N. C; Ga.; Ala.; Fla.; 

 N. Y.; Mo.; Ohio; Ind.; Mo.; Tex.; Col. 



Gnaphosa texana, sp. nov. 



Male. — Carapace almost black. Sternum fulvous. Legs dusky proxi- 

 maUy. Abdomen grey, paler beneath. Posterior median eyes about their 

 radius apart and once-and-a-half their diameter from the laterals. Lateral 

 eyes separated by twice the diameter of the posterior one. Met. I and II 

 with two pairs of ventral spines. Tib. I and II with five ventral spines. 

 Tib. II and IV with a median dorsal spine. Embolus of male palpus mak- 

 ing a complete turn about periphery of bulb. Tibial apophysis shorter 

 than tibia. 



Length, 6 mm.; cephalothorax, 3 mm.; tib. + pat. IV, 2.7 mm. 



Holotype.— M. C. Z. 591 (d^). 



Locality . — Texas : Austin . 



Gnaphosa fontinalis KeyserUng. 



Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1887, p. 426, f. 4. 



Gnaphosa americana Banks, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1896, 23, p. 61. 



Holotype.— M. C. Z. 70S ( 9 ). 



Distribution. — Ky.: Bee Spring (type loc); New York; Texas. 



Gnaphosa altudona, sp. nov. 



Female. — Cephalothorax and legs yellow. Abdomen light grey. Pos- 

 terior median eyes angular, half their longer diameter apart. Lateral eyes 

 less than their diameter apart. Anterior row recurved. Met. I and II 

 with three spines beneath. Tib. I unarmed; II with an apical spine. Tib. 

 Ill with no median dorsal spine. 



