loO J. H. Emerton, 



rim over tlie tarsus. The tarsal liook is small and simple. Tlie 

 tube is long and slender, coiling in two turns around tlie end 

 of tiie palpal organ. Figs. 9, 9a. PI. II. 



Goat Mountain, Jasper, Alberta, Canada, in the upper spruce 

 trees in moss, 



Lophocarenum alpinum. 



Dismodicus alpinus, Banks, Can. Ent., 1896. 



Lophocarenum alpinum, Em., Trans. Conn. Acad., 1909. 



One male of this was foimd in moss in the woods on Sulphur 

 Mountain, below the Alpine Club House. Eig. 7, PI. II, shows 

 the j)eculiar head and palpus. This species has been found three 

 times on the upper part of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. 



Lophocarenum erectum. new sp. 



2 mm. long. Legs and palpi orange, cephalothorax brown, 

 abdomen gray. Head of male elevated as in pallidum and cunea- 

 tum, with the upper middle eyes on top of the elevation turned a 

 little forward. The tibia of the male palpus has a long hook, 

 pointed outward over the back of the tarsus, as in castaneum, and 

 on the upper side of the tibia is a slender process extending straight 

 upward. Eigs. 8, 8a. PL 11. 



Two males from moss in spruce woods near camp at Tackakaw 

 Ealls in Yoho Valley, B. C. 



Gongylidium tuberosum, new sp. 



3.5 mm. long. Brown, resembling G. (Tmeticus) hrunneus and 

 maximus, and in size and color Pedanosthethus. The head is low 

 and the eyes small, the front middle pair one-half smaller than 

 the upper middle. The mandibles have the claw groove toothed 

 on both sides, but have no tooth on the front. The male palpi are 

 short and stout, as in the related species. The tibia is but little 

 modified in shape, and not widened at the end. The tarsus is 

 round, with a notch in the edge over the tarsal hook. The hook 

 is large and complicated, Eig. 5a, 5b, PI. II, at the end turning 

 sharply outward. 



The female is of the same size as the male. The epigynum has a 

 characteristic shape in three narrow lobes. Fig. 5. PI. II. 



Battle Harbor, Labrador, by C. W. Leng of J^. Y., sifting moss 

 for beetles. 



