Agalenidce and Dysderidce. 197 



Hahnia cinerea, new sp. 



Plate VII, figures 9, 9a, 96. 



Length, 1-5 to 2™°^. 



Cephalothorax light, with dark radiating markings. Abdomen 

 dark gray with scattered small white spots and a double median 

 row of oblique light markings somewhat like Cmlotes. Plate vii, 

 fig. 9. The legs are light yellowish brown Avith patella?, coxae, and 

 the ends of the longer joints paler than the rest. The basal joints 

 of the s])innerets are light yellowish brown like the legs. Terminal 

 joint of outer spinnerets shorter than basal. The tracheal openings 

 are nearer the spinnerets than the epigynum. The skin over the 

 epigynum is rather opaque and but little of it can be seen. The 

 palpi of the male have the patella and tibia both short and each has 

 a long, slender process on the outer side which is flexible and 

 variously curved at the end, fig. 9/>. The tarsus is short and oval. 

 The palpal organ has at the base a short feather-like appendage. 

 The tube is slender and curved around the distal end of the tarsus. 

 It has near the end a short soft appendage of the bulb, fig. ^a. 



Salem, Beverly, Swampscott, Cambridge, Roxbury, Mt. Tom, 

 Mass., and New Haven, Conn. 



Agalena Waick. 



Large hairy spiders with long legs and very long upper spinnerets. 

 The head is high and the middle eyes of both rows are much higher 

 than the others. The web is flat and more regular and closely woven 

 than in Tegenaria. 



Agalena naevia Walck. and Bosc, 1841; Heutz, 1848. 



^grafena j30<fen Blackwall, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xvii, 1846. 

 AgaUnopsis alhipilis G-iebel, Zeitsch. Gesammt. Nat., 1869. 



Agalena americana Keys., Zool. botan. Gesellsch., Wien, 18*77, male witli short- 

 tubed palpal organs, from Illinois. 



Plate VIII, figures 1, la, Ic, Id, If, Ig, Ih, li, IJ, Ik, U, Im, bi. 



This is the common grass spider all over the United States. It 

 varies greatly in size. A lajrge male measures 14™'" long, 4th leg 

 35""". A large female, 18""" long, 4th leg 30""", while a small adult 

 male is only 7""" long, and the 4th legs 15™"*. Plate viii, fig. 1. 



The cephalothorax is long and the cephalic part separated dis- 

 tinctly from the thoracic by grooves radiating from the dorsal 

 depression. The head is high and wide in front and contracted a 

 little just in front of the first pair of legs. The two rows of eyes 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. VIII. 26 Jan., 1890. 



