202 J. H. Emerton — N'ew England Drassidce, etc. 



long and narrow, widened a little half way btween the tip and the 

 insertion of the palpus. The palpi are short and stout, fig. 3. The 

 middle eyes are close together. The upper lateral eyes are about 

 twice their diameter from the middle pair, and the front eyes are 

 close to them, about half their diameter nearer the middle line. 



The male is a little smaller than the female and has the thorax 

 wider and the legs longer and more slender, fig. 3a. The metatarsus 

 of the first feet is crooked at the base with a spine on each side, the 

 outer one nearest the base, fig. 3a. The male palpi are but little 

 longer or stouter than those of the female. The tibia is a little 

 thickened. The palpal organ is attached to the under side of the 

 tarsus ; it has a round bulb about as thick as the tibia is long, 

 which narrows on the outer side into a short finely pointed tube 

 tliat curves sharply inward, fig. 3a. 



It lives under stones and leaves, or in long yellowish tubes only 

 wide enough to hold the spider under stones or in cracks of trees. 

 In July and August the cocoon with twenty or thirty eggs is made 

 in the tube with the female, and the young come out of the cocoon 

 and live in the tube for a short time with the female. 



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

 tion. 



