28 ,/. // Emerlon — Nev^ England TherididcM. 



Spintharus Ilentz, Boston Journal of Nat. Hisfc., vol. vi, 1850. 



Cephalotliora.Y short and round. Eyes nearly equal, the hind 

 middle pair twice as far apart as the front middle. Abdomen long, 

 narrowed behind and widest a little in front of the middle. Legs of 

 1st and 4t]i pairs equal and twice as long as the second pair. 



Spintharus flavidus Hentz, Boston .Tounial Nat. Hist., vol. vi. 



Plate V, figure 7. 



About 4'""' long. Cephalotliorax nearly circular, hind middle eyes 

 twice as far apart as the front middle pair. Abdomen widest one- 

 third its length from the front, taj)ering behind. The cephalotlio- 

 rax and legs are light yellow. Abdomen yellow below and at the 

 sides. On the back it has two lateral white stripes and between 

 these on each side a bright red band which becomes lighter toward 

 the middle. Fig. 7. The middle of the abdomen is gray with two or 

 three pairs of white spots, between which the red bands nearly meet. 

 The first and fourth ])airs of legs are twice as long as the second pair. 

 The tibia3 of the first and fourth legs are bright orange. 



I have this from Mew Haven; and from Boston, S. Henshaw. 

 Hentz found it in Alabama. 



Ulesanis L. Koch. 



Arachniden Australiens, pp. 242, 245. 

 Stegamma Cambridge, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, IS?."? and 1879. 

 Oroodes Simon, Mem. Soc. Roj. Liege, 2d series, vol. v, p. 127; and Arachnides 

 de France, vol. v. 



These are small spiders ivlated to Argyrodes and Euryopis. The 

 head is narrow and much elevated in both sexes. The abdomen is 

 higher than long and extends forward over the thorax to the head. 

 It is raised into a series of humps which are colored so as to resemble 

 a seed or grain of dirt. A species is found in Europe and described 

 by Simon under the name Oroodes paradoxus. 



Ulesanis americana, new. 



Plate VI, pighuks 1 to \g. 

 This little spider resembles a seed or Iumj» of diit. It measures 

 1-5""" in length and about the same in breadth and height. The 

 abdomen cov<'rs the cephalotliorax nearly to the eyes. It has a 

 jdominent hump in the middle of the back and four or five others 

 ))ehin(l. Figs. 1, 1^^ The ground-color of the abdomen is light yellow. 

 It has a transvei-se brown slri]>e each sidi' of the middle hum|) ;ind 



