218 J. H. Emerton. 



Bathyphantes furcatus. new 



3 or 4 mm. long. Cephalothorax 1.5 mm., i)ale with gray markings. 

 The cephalothorax has a square spot in the middle, running into 

 an indistinct median line about half the length of the cephalothorax. 

 The abdomen is marked with a broken middle line with several 

 pairs of irregular and somewhat broken branches connecting with 

 dark stripes below the middle of each side. The legs are faintly ringed 

 with gray at the ends and middle of the joints. The epigynum pro- 

 jects one-fourth the length of the abdomen. The male palpi have 

 the tarsus half longer than wide. The process at the base of the tar- 

 sus is unusually large and turns upward in a sharp point. Figs. 7 b, 7 c. 

 The tarsal hook is wide and short, curved inward at the end and with 

 two short teeth on the outer edge. On the outer side of the palpal 

 organ is a long slender appendage with a shorter slender branch at 

 about the middle. Figs. 7 b, 7 c. PI. IT 



Passaconaway, N. H. summit, in moss in bogs at 3000 ft. elevation. 

 Mt. Mansfield, Vt. 



Bathyphantes recurvattis. new 



3 mm. long. Cephalothorax and legs pale without any markings. 

 Abdomen with dark gray transverse marks partly connected with 

 a median line at the front end. The male palpi have the tarsus 

 rounded and not much longer than wide, the process near the base 

 is slender and pointed and turned outward toward the tarsal hook. 

 The tarsal hook is wide and long with the point rounded and dark 

 colored and turned upward toward the end of the tarsus. At the 

 inner side of the hook is a sharp tooth similar in shape to the one at 

 the base of the tarsus. Fig. 8. PI. II. 



Gore Mountain, Norton, Vt., Aug. 6, 1912. One male, 



Epeira emertoni Banks, Nearctic Spiders, Journ. N. Y, Entomolog- 

 ical Society, 1904. 



Female 6 mm. long, colors dull pale yellow with brown markings 

 resembling in color as well as size E. prompta and without the bright 

 yellow of E. trivittata. The abdomen, however, is not raised behind 

 as in prompta, but is oval like trivittata. The middle folium does not 

 extend to the front of the abdomen; it has a dark edge with white 

 outside of it, and a dark middle stripe also bordered with white. 

 The depth of color varies. In some individuals it is dark brown 

 with the middle markings obscured as in the figure, and in some the 

 folium is pale and lighter than the sides of the abdomen. The under 



