J. H. Ein.erton, — New England Lyrosidm. 493 



front half and the rest is nearly black with scattered small white spots. 

 The femora are marked with three or four light and dark rings, and 

 rings show indistinctly on the other j(»ints in some specimens. 



The sterinim is dark with three indistinct light lines. The abdo- 

 men is dark beneath with many small light spots in oblique rows. 



The epigynum is dark brown,* divided at the edge into two lobes. 



Long Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N. Y. 



Pirata montanus, new. 



Plate XLVllI, figure 9. 



Length, 5"""; 4th leg, 1()""'\ The legs are yellowish white, with 

 very faint grayish rings near the ends of the joints and dark spines. 

 The sternum and cox* are white. Tlie cephalothorax is gray at the 

 sides and has a wide light strii)e in the middle, which is as wide as 

 the liead in front and tapers to half as wide behind. In the front 

 half of this stripe are two dark lines, widest near the eyes and con- 

 verging behind to the dorsal groove. The region ai'ound the eyes 

 is black and the front of the head and mandiljles dark. The sternum, 

 front half of the abdomen and spinnerets are white. 



The back of the abdomen is brown, with an indistinct row of small 

 white spots each side. On the front end is a middle stri[»e with dark 

 edges which tapers to a jtoint near the middle of the abdomen. On 

 the hinder segments are several dark and light tiansverse lines not 

 forming any distinct figure. 



The front row of eyes is considerably shorter than the S(!Cond row, 

 extending from the middle of one second eye to the middle of the 

 other. 



The hinder spinnerets are twice as long as the front pair and ex- 

 tend behind the al)domen. 



The epigynum appears very simple externally, the spermathecje 

 showing through the skin just in front of the edge of the fold in 

 which appears to be the opening. 



All the specimens are females, one from the White Mountains in 

 July, with eggs, and two from Long Lake in the Adirondack Mount- 

 ains, N. Y. 



Pirata minutus, uew. 



Plate XLVIII, figuhes 10, 10a, 10/>, JOc. 

 Length of male, 3'"'". Cei)halothorax gray, with a light line near the 

 edge of the thorax and several radiating lines. Legs white or light 

 yellow. The femora of the front legs darker and the rest of the leg 



