398 J. H. Emcrton, 



around the base of the tube, and usually pointed at the tip with a 

 tooth on the outer side; but this varies in different individuals. 

 Fig. la. 



Under leaves at all seasons. Tyngsboro, Cambridge, Mt. Mans- 

 tield. White Mountains. Flying from fences, Readville, Mass., in 

 November. 



Linyphia humilis, Em. Canadian Spiders, Trans. Conn. Acad. Vol. 

 IX, 1894. 

 This species first described from the Rock}^ Mountains of Canada 

 has now been found on the upper part of the Green Mountains, 

 from Mt. Mansfield, Vermont, to Greylock, Mass., on Mt. Willard in 

 the White Mountains, and at the sea level at Eastport and Machias, 

 Me. It lives in the low firs and spruces that cover the tops of 

 Greylock and Mansfield, and has not been found there below 2000 

 feet; and from 2000 to 4000 feet on Mt. Washington, most abun- 

 dant in the dwarf trees along the road near the Half-way House, 

 and becoming scarcer downward as far as the path to Hermit Lake. 

 Found in the Great Gulf near the Appalachian Club camps. In 

 Maine it lives also where the forest consists largely of stunted spruces 

 in company with Theridion zelotypum. Both males and females are 

 found in the Green Mountains in great abundance in the middle of 

 yune, and the young in September. The shape of the abdomen of 

 the female is slightly pointed behind and high in the middle. PI. IV, 

 fig. 2 c. The dorsal marking is divided by two notches at the sides 

 into three parts, the middle part much smaller than the other two. 

 Fig. 2 b. The colors resemble conwmnis, for which it may be some- 

 times mistaken. In the male the colors are much brighter, the 

 cephalothorax and legs light orange and the abdomen brown. The 

 head of the male is as high as it is wide and black between the 

 eyes. The male palpi resemble those of L. marginata and have 

 the tarsal hook showing plainly from above, curved in a half circle 

 with the end slightly widened. Fig. 2 a. The epigynum is shown 

 in fio-. 2d. See also figures in Trans. Conn. Acad. Vol. IX. 



Epeira diademata, CI. 



Newport, R. I. on window frames, fences and vines around the 

 Imilding of the Historical Societ}' and fences of neighboring gardens 

 on Touro Street, Sept. 20, 1910. One adult $ under fence cap. 

 Large females with nest above the web. A common European 

 species reported from Vancouver, Wisconsin and Newfoundland, but 

 now found far the first time in New EuPfland. 



