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darker ring at the end and sometimes around the middle. The 

 patella is the same color darker toward the tip. The other joints are 

 white with orange or dark brown rings at the end. The sternum is 

 dark hrown, rarely with an indistinct light mark in the middle. The 

 abdomen is marked on the back with a folium extending its whole 

 length or with the front portion indistinct or absent in very light 

 specimens. The light parts are white, yellow or occasionally orange, 

 the dark parts gray or light brown. The two light spots near the 

 muscular marks on the first segment and the median stripe form a 

 cross-shaped marking in the front of the abdomen. The spots on 

 the other segments decrease in size backward. The edges of the 

 folium are dark with a narrow light line outside. The sides of the 

 abdomen are marked with oblique dark stripes not sharply separated 

 from the lighter spaces between. The under side of the abdomen 

 has the usual dark area in the middle with a semicircular yellow 

 marking each side of it. I have never found any marked like E. 

 pyraniklata of Europe, which is supposed to be a variety of niar- 

 morea. 



A male from Beverly, Mass., measures 8""" long; first leg 16'"™. 

 A larger male from Mt. Tom, Mass., is 10""" long; first leg IS""". 

 The only European specimen that I have is 8""" long. The colors 

 and markings are like those of the female. The tibite of the second 

 legs are much enlarged and the spines on the inner side are short and 

 stout. The cox;e of the second pair have a long conical spine near 

 the base. The palpal organ is large and dark colored. At the base 

 of the bulb there is the usual process with a blunt tooth at the outer 

 corner, and a short sharp one just under the end of the tube and 

 terminal hook. The terminal hook is not so darkly colored as the 

 other appendages. It is long enough to cover the whole width of 

 the organ. The tube is short and can be distinguished by its dark 

 color under the end of the terminal hook. The tube has a large fiat 

 ])rocess near the ti)» which camiot be easily seen without pressing the 

 appendages apart. 



In Beverly, Mass., this species is as common as insulwis and lives 

 in the same places on bushes near meadows. From the woods on 

 jMt. Tom, Ilolyoke, Mass., I have two adidt males and several innna- 

 tiire females taken in July, 187:5, all very large specimens and very 

 pale, showing hardly any trace of the folium or the rings on the legs. 

 1 have it also from Kastport, Me., and western Massachusetts. A 

 male and femah' from Chateaugay lake, Adirondack INFts., from F. A. 

 IJowdilclr; Canada, J. B. Tyrrell. 



