1908.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 303 



Length of leg I, 4.5 mm. ; tib. + pat., 1.6 mm. ; met., 1 mm. 



Length of leg II, 4.4 mm. 



Length of leg III, 3.8 mm. 



Length of leg IV, 6.3 mm. ; tib. + pat., 2 mm.; met., 1.8 mm. 



Male. — Femora of first two pairs of legs black, others dusky yellow; 

 all other joints clear yellow, "without indications of any dark marks; 

 palpi entirely black, except the patellae which often are paler above; 

 coloration otherwise nearly as in female, but in general darker. 



Tibia of palpus considerably longer than patella, and narrower 

 than tarsus; main process of apophysis of conductor with its upper 

 half bent outward at right angles to lower half at or a little in front 

 of front margin of alveolus; basal spur ending apicallj^ in an acute 

 point (PI. XXI, fig. 9). 



Total length, 2.9 mm. Length of cephalothorax, 1.6 mm.; width, 

 1 mm. Length of leg I, 4.4 mm. 



Syn. — 1890. Pirata minuta Em., Banks, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 44, 



p. 72. 

 — Pirata exigua Banks, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 44, p. 72, PI. 1, fig. 48. 

 1890. Pirata minuta Em., Marx, Proc. U. S. N. M., 12, p. 564. 

 Non-s}Ti. — 1892. Pirata minuta Em., Fox, Proc. Ent. Soc. W. 

 Syn.— 1898. Pirata m,inutus Em., Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign., II, p. 335. 



Type locality. — Massachusetts and Connecticut. 



Known localities. — Massachusetts!, Connecticut, New York (Ithaca!). 



I have found females of this species with egg-sacs fairly common in 

 certain damp meadows about Ithaca, New York, late in the summer. 

 A few were taken at the margins of ponds. The male above described, 

 from Massachusetts, was kindly loaned me by Mr. J. 11. Emerton. 



Pirata aspirans Chamberlin, 1904. 



(Can. Ent., Vol. XXXVI, p. 286.) 

 Female. — Sides of cephalothorax dark brown crossed by radiating 

 lines of black; a pale median band beginning at posterior margin 

 narrows to caudal end of thoracic furrow, then widens gradually to 

 eyes of third row where it more or less abruptly widens and encloses the 

 eye area, below which on each side it attains the clypeus as usual ; 

 within the median pale band a median line at front of furrow bifurcates, 

 sending a branch to eyes of each side as usual; eyes surrounded by 

 black; clypeus yellow; a marginal band of yellow on each side, limited 

 below by a line of black, these side stripes extending forward only to 

 opposite the third eyes. Chelicerce reddish yellow, smoky over middle 

 region and with branching lines of black over basal area. Labium 

 yellow. Endites yellow above, and darker, dusky-brown below. 



