244 J. n. Mmerton — New Mngland Attidm. 



bands at the sides. The rest of the top of the cephalotliorax is cov - 

 ered with orange scales. 



Abdomen with a white band around the front and sides. Middle 

 of the back black, with a few orange scales around the edges. Sides 

 of the black patch irregularly scalloped. In the middle are oblique 

 white markings, edged with orange-brown. 



The legs are white at the ends and dark on the patella and tibia, 

 and outer end of the femur. Ends of all the joints darker than the 

 middle. 



The epigynum has two large anterior openings near together, and 

 behind and each side of them two other large openings near the edge. 

 Fig. 2e. 



The adult male has the colors much like the young male, described 

 above, with the legs black on the patella and tibia, and part of the 

 femur, and the rest white, with black at the ends of the tarsus and 

 metatarsus. The female is various shades of brown, mixed with 

 white and yellow scales and black hairs. Fig. 2b, 2c. 



The male palpi are shoi't, black at the base and white on the top 

 of the tarsus. The tibial hook is long and blunt, extending along 

 the side of the tarsus half its length. Fig. 2/, 2g. The palpal organ 

 has the inner posterior corner swelled and extended inward to a 

 blunt point. Fig. 2/'. The tube curves around from the base to 

 the tip of the tarsus. 



A common species in eastern Massachusetts. Found also fi'om 

 the White Mountains to southern Connecticut. 



Habrocestum splendens, Peckham. $ Ergane spkndens Keys. 



? Pellenes nigriceps Keys. 



I have only seen the males of this species. It has been fully de- 

 scribed by Peckham in his N. A. Attidse in the Transactions of the 

 Wisconsin Academy, vol. vii, and figured and its mating habits 

 described in vol. i, of Occasional Papers of the Nat. Hist. Society of 

 Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1889. 



My males are 5™"^ long, with the cephalotliorax nearly 3™'". The 

 cephalotliorax is widest and highest behind the second legs. The 

 front part projects forward beyond the mandibles and the front eyes 

 look a little downward. PI. XX, figs. 5, 5b. The abdomen is shorter 

 than the cephalotliorax, widest in the middle, square in front and 

 pointed behind. The legs are long and stout, the third pair longest. 

 In alcohol the brilliant colors of the male fade, and the colors and 

 markings resemble more those of the female. The cephalotliorax is 



