370 J. H. Emerton — Spiders of the Family Thomisidce. 



palpi are brown but not quite as dark. The third and fourth legs 

 are light yellow. The immature males have the front legs no longer 

 than those of the female and only partly colored brown. PI. 

 XXX, fig. 2d. 



The young of both sexes have the abdomen darker in the middle, 

 with light stripes in the hinder half. 



The male palpi, PI. xxx, figs. 2/', 2//, are very small. The 

 tibial process extends half the length of the tarsus and has a sharp 

 point turned a little outward and just below the point a small hook 

 turned upward. The palpal organ is much smaller than the tarsus, 

 flat and circular with a short tube and without any other processes. 



The abdomen of the female is a little flatter than that of vatia, 

 straighter at the sides and more truncated behind. 



Massachusetts and Connecticut. 



Misumena asperata = Tlwmisus asperatus Hentz. 



Misumena georgiana Keyserling. specimen in Mas. Comp. Zool., Cambridge ; aud 

 31. foliata Banks. 



Plate XXX, figures 3-3e. 



This species does not grow as large as i^atia and the color of the 

 adult female is more generally yellow, sometimes deep yellow, but 

 oftener pale and greenish. The legs are a little spotted with pale 

 brown and more hairy than in vatia. The males and young are 

 brightly colored with dull yellow and reddish brown markings, 

 some of which are retained by the female until the last moult. A 

 female half grown (PI. xxx, fig. 3«) has the cephalothorax light in 

 the middle with a brownish stripe each side covering half ^v?^,J to 

 the edge. The abdomen has a dark red band on each side of the 

 front half and in the middle a pattern in light brick red. The first 

 and second legs are marked with dark red-brown spots on the end 

 of the patella, both ends of tibia, and the end half of the meta- 

 tarsus. The hairs are much longer than in the adult. 



A female just before the last moult had lost entirely the markings 

 of the legs (PI. xxx, fig. 3a), and had the pale markings of the 

 adult behind the eyes, while the abdomen showed the two side 

 stripes broken into several spots and three pairs of spots on the 

 hinder half darkest on the outer side, all brick red. This spider 

 was perched on a jjlant of sorrel [Rinnex acetocella) and its colors 

 were exactly those of the flowers. The male has the colors of the 

 young, but all deeper, the ground yellow or greenish and the mark- 



