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Dislrihulion. — Massachusetts: Maiden, July 15 (Frost) type d'; Lowell 

 (Blanchard). New For^-; Buffalo; "N.Y." (various collections). New Jersey: 

 (Leng), (\'an Dyke Coll.). District of Columbia: Washington (Hubbard & 

 Schwarz); D. C. (Leng Coll.). Maryland :'PhxmmQv's Island (Nat. Mus. Coll.); 

 Jackson's Island, June 22 (Barber— Nat. Mus. Coll.); "Md" (Liebeck). Vir- 

 ginia: Pennington Gap, July 8, and Afton (Hubbard & Schvvarz). North 

 Carolina: Black Mountains; June (Van Dyke); Raleigh, early ,]\i\y (Sherman). 

 Alabama: Mobile, May 25 to June 1 (Loding); Tumbling Gap, June 3 to 8 

 (Loding); Oak Grove (Soltau — Nat. Mus.). Florida: Jacksonville (.\shmead — 

 Nat. Mus. Coll.). Ohio: Cincinnati (Dury). Illinois: Quincy, Juno 14; 

 Algonquin (Nason); So. HI. (Soltau). Missouri: "C. Mo" (Nat. Mus. Coll.). 

 Arkansas: Little Rock (Wickham). Mississsippi: "S. ]VIiss" (Soltau); Meri- 

 dian, July 12 (Soltau). Kansas: Salina (Knaus); Douglas Co. (Dyche — Snow 

 Coll.) Kans. (Snow). Nebraska: Plattsmouth (Shimek). Oklahoma: Atoka, 

 June 13 to 15 (Wickham). Texas: Columbus, June to Aug. (Hubbard & 

 Schwarz); San Diego, May 30 (Schwarz); Flatonia, July 30 (Wenzel); Green 

 Valley, Chisos Mountains, Brewster County, July 14 (Wenzel); Cypress Mills, 

 April to July (Leng); Brownsville, Aug. (Beyer); "Tex" (various collections). 



This, as indicated by the localities, is a widespread and com- 

 mon species and exhibits a good deal of variation. The general 

 aspect is ferruginous in the female owing to the dense diffuse 

 punctuation and lack of definite markings. In the male the 

 colors are more contrasting, the punctuation a little less dense, 

 with more obvious striae. The width of the front between the 

 eyes is less constant than usual, and in a male example from Jack- 

 sonville, Florida, the eyes are distinctly closer than the vertical 

 width of their upper lobes, but in a .second male from the same 

 place the eyes are nearly normally distant. It should be noted 

 that in these two males the front claws are a little larger than 

 is usual in the species, but I do not think this of much weight in 

 view of the obvious tendency in the long series at hand to vary 

 in these respects. 



That so common a species as this, and one so generally dis- 

 persed throughout the Atlantic Region should as yet have received 

 no name is almost incredible, and I have persistently refrained 

 from giving it one until there seems to be no other course to ])ursue. 

 There is, to be sure, no lack of names applied to the species in 

 various collections, and in the National Museum Collection alone 

 it appears under no less than five — viz. itjfauslKs, aiotnariuK,femo- 

 ralus, pectoralis and covforniis. In 1h(^ Horn Collection it goes as 

 sobrinus, while more recently Bowditch has identified it as spu- 

 tnarius. This last name has seemed to be the most likely one, 



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