1*70 -T. H. Emerton — New England Drassiclw, 



ward. The femora of all the legs are striped lengthwise with brown 

 and yellow. The hind legs are brown with a little yellow on the 

 upper side of the patella and tibia. The other legs are yellow, some- 

 times with brown stripes on the under side. The white marks on 

 the abdomen extend underneath half way to the middle line. The 

 front hard part of the under side of the abdomen is lighter than the 

 hinder part, and the sternum is of the same color. The coxa? are 

 lighter yellowish brown. 



The cpigynum shows through the skin as three dai-k spots and has 

 two openings directed backward, fig. 8f7. 



The male palpi have the patella very short, about half as long as 

 the tibia, fig. 2>h. The tarsus is very large and dark colored, wide at 

 the base and tapering toward the tip. The palpal organ is simi- 

 larly shaped, with a rounded bulb through which the coiled tube 

 can be seen, and a slender tip lying in a groove in the tarsus, fig. 3c. 



Hentz's Herpyllus zonarius and trilineattis seem to be near this 

 species. 



It lives under leaves at all seasons of the yeai", and though not so 

 quick in its motions as crocata is a difficult spider to catch except in 

 cold weather, when it is often sifted from leaves in a torpid condi- 

 tion. 



Massachusetts, Connecticut, and in N. Pike's Long Island collection. 



The color is sometimes lighter, the whole cephalothorax above 

 and below being light orange color, and the legs the same color, with 

 the longitudinal brown stripes very narrow and indistinct. 



In young individuals of both varieties the sternum is wider and 

 more convex than in adults. 



Geotrecha pinnata, new sp. 



Plate III, figures 4, 4a. 



The largest specimen is 7™"^ long, cephalothorax, S"*™. 



The cephalothorax is shaped much as in G. crocata. The abdo- 

 men is oval, not so much narrowed in front as in the other species. 



The cephalothorax is light brown. The abdomen is grayish 

 brown with several white transverse stripes. The two widest 

 stripes are in the same position as the two stripes of C. bivittata. 

 On the front of the abdomen is another stripe, and on the posterior 

 half are four or five others, some of them incomplete on the middle 

 of the back. The femora of all the legs are light brown, the first, 

 second and third legs are yellow, except the femora. The fourth 

 legs have the tarsus and the ends of the tibia yellow, the rest light 

 brown. Plate iii, fig. 4. 



