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a white tip and leg 2 has the same colors less strongl}' marked. 

 The patella and end of the femur of leg 1 are also dark colored. 

 The male palpus is dark colored its whole length. The tibia is as 

 wide as long and has on the outer side, starting in the middle, a 

 long process that widens toward the end where it is truncated 

 obliquely and has on the upper corner a short, slighth' curved tooth 

 turned inward. PI. VI. fig. 3, 3a. 



The female is a little larger than the male, with the abdomen 

 larger and less iridescent and with the hinder half marked with 

 light and dark chevrons. The front half has the markings absent 

 or indistinct and is sometimes gray and sometimes paler than the 

 rest of the back. The epigjaium has the receptacles twice their 

 diameter apart. Under side of abdomen pale or with two faint 

 longitudinal lines. 



New Haven, Conn., T3-ngsboro, Mass., Three Mile Island, Lake 

 Winnipesaukee, N. H., Crawford Notch. 



Phrurolithus alarius, Hentz. 



Phrurolithus palustris Bks. Ithaca Spiders, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1892. 



P. alarius (in part) Em. Trans. Conn. Acad. 1890. 



This species and borealis were included under the name P. alarius 

 Hentz in New England Drossidae, etc. in Trans. Conn. Acad. 1890. 

 Male and female 2 to 2.5 mm. long. The cephalothorax is pale 

 with a black line along the edges and two dark bands extending 

 l^ack from the eyes and nearly meeting behind. The abdomen 

 is marked by short lines and chevrons more or less broken into 

 spots, especially in the female. Legs 1 and 2 have the tibia marked 

 with black and white and legs 3 and 4 have the joints tipped 

 with gray and a gray mark in the middle of the tibia. In pale 

 individuals the legs are sometimes without markings, even the dark 

 color of tibia 1 being almost absent. In very dark males the bands 

 of the cephalothorax may be united with the black edges and the 

 abdomen may have the markings covered with gray so as to be 

 very indistinct. The male palpus PL VI, figs. 4, 4 a, has the process 

 of the tibia tapering toward the point and curved inward as figured 

 in Trans. Conn. Acad. 1890, PI. VI, fig. 5e and 5g. The epigynum 

 has the receptacles not more than their diameter apart. The under 

 side of the abdomen has usually two gray spots near the middle, 

 one just in front of the spinnerets and others along the sides. 



Around Boston Mass., HoUis, Me., Lake Winnipesaukee, N. H., 

 south to No. Carolina. 



