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ends of tlie femora and jiatellfe of the first two pairs and less distinctly 

 at the end of the other joints. There are long dark colored spines on 

 the legs as in Ero thoradca. The epigynum is dark colored and 

 the opening is under the end which extends backward over the fold. 



The males are slightly smaller then the females but have similar 

 colors and markings, quite difterent from the next species, though the 

 palpi are much alike. 



Eastern Massachusetts and New Haven, Conn., in low bushes in 

 woods. I have found it often by sweeping and occasionally on 

 fences, but have never found one in its web. Hentz describes what I 

 suppose is this species from Alabama, where he says it lives in 

 houses and preys on other spiders, making no web of its own. This 

 species is said by Simon (Arachnides de France, vol. v), to occur in 

 Southern Europe. 



Mimetus epeiroides, new. 



Plate III, figures 4 to 4&. 



The only adult, a male, is about 3""" long. The cephalothorax in 

 this and in young females is long and narrow in front, as in inter- 

 fector, light yellow in color, with four fine black lines from the eyes 

 back to the dorsal groove. The abdomen has the same epeiroid shape 

 as in interfector. The general color of the abdomen is light yellow 

 and there are white transverse bands on the front part. The black 

 spots are small and irregular and arranged in pairs, which do not 

 run together into stripes as in the other species. The sternum has 

 four pairs of brown spots at the base of the legs. The femora of 

 the two front pairs of legs have on the under side two fine black 

 lines. The legs are yellowish white above without dark rings. The 

 mandibles are white with a small black spot in front near the base. 

 The palpal organ is large and has a long slender tube supported only 

 at the end by short processes. Fig. 4/>. The tarsus has a large 

 curved process at the hinder corner on the outside, and two small 

 slender processes at the end. The outer edge is finely toothed. The 

 tibia and patella have long hairs. 



Adult male from Essex, Mass., and young of both sexes from 

 variou^s places in eastern Massachusetts, and Providence, R. I. 



ErO C. Koch. 



These spiders have the cephalothorax very short and high in the 

 middle, from which it slopes abruptly back under the abdomen, which 

 is also high in front. The abdomen and legs are covered with long 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. VI. 3 Sept., 1882. 



