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Euryopis funebris (Hentz). 



Theridion fimebre Hentz. 



Plate V, figures 6 to 66. 



Length about 3™"\ Cephalothorax as wide as long. Front middle 

 eyes larger, farther apart and fartlier forward than the others. Fig. 

 6rt. Mandibles and maxillne small. Abdomen flat and in the mid 

 die nearly as wide as long, truncated in front and tapering to a 

 point behind. The legs are 4, I, 'J, 3. The general color is black or 

 dark gray. The cephalotliorax is yellowish gray, black about the 

 eyes. The legs and palpi are light yellow with black rings on the 

 tarsi and black stripes along the sides of the other joints connected 

 here and there by grayish rings. The abdomen has a bright silver 

 white stri{)e around the hinder half. Inside this the color is black, 

 broken by light S[)Ots in the middle of the forward part. The 

 sternum and middle of the abdomen are black. The male is slightly 

 smaller and has a smaller abdomen and longer legs. The pal])i of 

 the males have the tarsus rounded and the tibia wider than long. 

 The palj)al organ has a short tube at the end sup[)orted by a process 

 of about the same length, both resting in a groove at the end of the 

 tarsus. Fig. OJ. 



Mt. Washington, N. H. ; Swatnpscott, Mass. ; Mt. Tom, Ilolyoke, 

 Mass. ; New Haven, Conn. Hentz had it from Alabama. 



Euryopis argentea, new. 



Plate V, figure 5. 



Of this I have only young specimens. They are about 2'""' long. 

 Tlie abdomen is shaped much as in funebre^ pointed behind and trun- 

 cated in front, black with five or six pairs of white spots along the 

 middle and others at tlie sides. The cephalothorax is not so much 

 widened as in funebris. The forward half is black, while the rest, 

 which is nearly covered by the abdomen, is light yellow, almost 

 white. The legs are light yellow. The eyes are more nearly equal 

 than in the other species, though the front middle pair ai-e larger 

 than the others. 



Beverly and Milton, Mass., and New Haven, Conn. Tiie largest 

 were found in May, the others in winter, so that it probably matures 

 in summer. 



