ART. 13. NEW AMKPJCAN AND CHINESE SPIDERS CHAMBERLIN. 7 



Carapace and sternum dusky over fulvous, almost black, the 

 labium, endites, and chelicerae also dark. Legs more yellowish and 

 less dusky. Abdomen blackish, with a transverse white band across 

 middle above and laterally, but the band absent or vague ventrally. 



Palpus as shown in Plate 1, figure 7. 



Length, 2 mm.; cephalothorax, 1 mm.; greatest width of cephalo- 

 thorax, 6 mm. 



Locality. — Louisiana : New Orleans. One male taken in house in 

 June. 



Type.—C^t. No. 569, M. C. Z. 



BATHYPHANTES EUYTHROIDES, new species. 



Piute 2, fig. 9. 



Female. — Carapace, sternum, and legs from base to middle of 

 femora light orange. Legs distad of middle of femora black or 

 nearly so. The abdomen reddish, without distinct markings. 



Clypeus vertical or very nearly so. Posterior row of eyes a little 

 procurved; median eyes more than their diameter from the laterals, 

 nearer to the latter than to each other. Anterior row of eyes nearly 

 straight, a little procurved; median eyes smaller than the laterals, 

 about their diameter apart and nearly twice as far from the laterals. 

 Lateral eyes prominent. 



Epigynum as shown in Plate 2, figure 9. 



Length, 2.5 mm.; cephalothorax, 1 mm.; tibia and patella I, 1.45 

 mm. ; tibia and patella IV, 1.3 mm. 



Locality. — Louisiana : Talisheek. One female. 



Type.— C-At. No. 568, M. C. Z. 



GRAPHOMOA, new genus. 



Cephalothorax short, narrowed forward, the frons narrow and 

 wholl}' crossed by the eye-area. Clypeus depressed beneath the ante- 

 rior eyes, about equal in height to the length of the median eye-area. 

 Anterior row of eyes a little recurved; eyes nearly equal and equi- 

 distant, near together. Posterior row of eyes straiglit or but little 

 procurved; eyes nearly equal and equidistant, typically less than 

 their diameter apart. Lateral eyes nearly contiguous, protruding as 

 in Maso. Chelicerae with both margins dentate, mucli as, for in- 

 stance, in species of Gongylidlellurn. Sternum broad, cordate, pro- 

 duced and inflexed between posterior coxae nearly as usual in Maso. 

 Legs long and distally slender; the tarsi much shorter than the meta- 

 tai^i; metatarsi somewhat longer than the tibiae; claws smooth. 

 Abdomen high, not scutate. 



Genotype. — Graphomoa theridioides, new species. 



