294 clarp:nce m. weed. 



patella not lamellate. Legs rather short, more or less robust, first tarsus 6-jointed, 

 with first Joiut.not much longer than the rest, and joints 1, 2, 3, or 4 thickened, 

 third and fourth tarsi slender. 



In order to consider that in these species the first tarsus is 6-jointed, 

 one must include the joint at the end of the metatarsus attached to 

 the latter by an oblique false articulation (see plate vi, fig. 2, e). 

 The thickening of these first tarsi is also not very distinct. 



The three United States species of Cijnorta may be separated by 

 the following key : 



Posterior pair of abdominal tubercles very prominent; four or five times as large 



as anterior pair C'. oriiala. 



Posterior pair of abdominal tubercles little larger than anterior. 



Dorsum with a distinct yellow Y connected posteriorly with a distinct trans- 

 verse yellow line C. albolineata. 



Dorsum without, or with very little yellow marking €'. sayi. 



Cynoria sayi Simon. 



Gonyleptes ornatum Wood, Comm. Essex Inst, vi, 37. 



Cynorta sayi Simon, .Inn. de la Soc. Ent. de Belgique, 1879, p. 200. 



Body 6 mm. long; 5 mm. wide. Legs: first, 8.5 mm. ; second, 13.5 mm. ; third, 

 11.5 mm.; fourth, 15 mm. General color ferruginous brown, more or less 

 blotched with a darker shade. Legs dusky toward distal ends. In some speci- 

 mens there is a more or less distinct yellow marking on dorso-mesou behind eye 

 eminence, and a transverse line near posterior margin of abdominal scutum. 

 Eye eminence very low and wide, with a longitudinal depression between the 

 black eyes; a pair of small, low, blunt tubercles on abdominal scutum, just back 

 of suture between cephalothorax and abdomen ; another similar pair about 2 

 mm. caudad of this, and behind the latter are three similar tubercles arranged 

 transversely. The central portion of the abdominal scutum is finely and re- 

 motely tuberculate, and its margins together with the margins of the posterior 

 abdominal segments (both on dorsum and ventrum) are much more distinctly 

 tuberculate, the tubercles being rounded, and on the segments arranged in trans- 

 verse rows ; a large, distinct, slightly curved tooth is on the outer dorsal surface 

 of the hind margin of each posterior coxa. Legs furnished with longitudinal 

 rows of small acute tubercles. Mandibles short, first joint with a large truncate 

 tubercle-like projection on the dorsal surface of its distal half; second joint 

 rounded and swollen, with its claws unequal, the larger one being curved, and 

 both having not very distiuct teeth. Palpi short, robust ; femur compressed, its 

 lower surface crenulate; patella arched, swollen from base to extremity; tibia 

 much flattened, margined at the side ; tarsus short, its lower edge furnished with 

 a few spiuose hairs, armed with a strong curved claw. Genital organ of male 

 '' straight, cylindrical, distally much enlarged and abruptly truncated, its end 

 furnished on each side with three curved, hook-like spines."*' 



Described from many specimens. Houston and Harwood, Texas 

 (H. F. Wickham) ; Brazos County, Texas (N. Banks). 



•■■- Wood. 



