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Alexander Petruukevitch, 



specimen is very poor and as far as I can judge Scudder's descrip- 

 tion is correct. 



Linyphia florissanti n. sp. (Text figure 21). 



One specimen, probably a male, from Florissant in the T. D. A. 

 Cockerell Collection of the University of Colorado. It is very 

 poorly preserved. 



I am not at all certain tinder which family this specimen should 

 be placed. There are no spines on the legs which are clothed 

 with simple hair. The claws are not preserved, the eyes are indis- 

 cernible, neither can the spinnerets be seen. Only its general 

 appearance reminds of a Linyphiid. 



Figure 21. — Linyphia florissanti n. sp. x 3.33. 



Total length including chelicercC — 6.2 mm. Carapace longer than 

 wide, being 2.1 mm. long and 1.9 mm. wide in the widest place, i.e. 

 between the second and third cox^e. It is eggshaped, pointed 

 anteriorly. The outline of the sternum appears impressed inside 

 the carapace. Its anterior end is not clearly visible, but the first 

 coxae are distinctly widely separate. The posterior end of the 

 sternum is pointed, slightly yet distinctly separating the fourth 



