ART. 13. NEW AMERICAN AND CHINESE SPIDEES CHAMBERLIN. 13 



branched micldorsal and oblique lateral lines. On the dorsum five 

 or six pairs of black dots forming two longitudinal series, and in 

 addition a series of somewhat larger dots along the median line. 

 These dots, however, are ^absent on the younger paratypes. Hairs of 

 anterior femora arising from minute black dots. 



Pars cephalica proportionately narrower and longer than in 

 caiidata. Most readily distinguished by the eyes. The posterior 

 row of eyes much more strongly recurved than in caudata. Lateral 

 eyes on each side much more widely separated than the correspond- 

 ing medians. Area of median eyes longer than wide and narrower 

 in front than behind. Anterior row of eyes in anterior view a little 

 procurved, the lateral eyes much smaller than the medians. Head 

 carried forward in a rounded tubercle on which the median eyes are 

 situated, this more marked than in caudata. 



Abdomen of the usual general form, the cauda forming about one- 

 fifth of the total length. 



Length of not fully mature female, 9.5 mm.; tibia and patella. 

 I, 5.8 mm. ; tibia and patella, IV, 3.8 mm. 



Locality. — China: Soochow (N. Gist Gee). One female. 



Type.— Cdii. No. 870, U.S.N.M. 



LEUCAUGE RETRACTA, new species. 



Plate 3, figs. 25-26. 



Female. — Coloration of the usual general type. A smaller species 

 than the following, veterascens^ from which it differs obviously in 

 the form of the abdomen. The abdomen projects much less forward, 

 the caudal end also less protruding, with the caudal slope much 

 more nearly vertical; dorsal line much more nearly horizontal, 

 clavately widening caudad, this feature furnishing an easy means of 



Epig}'num with the opening proportionately much larger than iix 

 the following species. Middle piece of dorsal wall much broari^^ 

 discriminating the species (pi. 3, fig. 25). 



Male. — Palpal organ as shown in Plate 3, figure 26. 



Length of carapace of female, 3 mm.; width 2 mm. Length of 

 tibia and patella I, 6.2 mm. ; of tibia and patella IV, 4 mm. 



Length of cephalothorax of male, 2.1 mm. ; tibia and patella I, 7.8 

 mm.; tibia and patella IV, 4 mm. 



Locality. — China: Soochow (N. Gist Gee). One male and one 

 female. 



Type.— C2it. No. 871, U.S.N.M. 



LEUCAUGE VETERASCENS, new species. 



Plate 3, fig. 27. 



Female. — Carapace light brown, without markings. Mandibles 

 brown of reddish cast. Sternum, labium, and ondites dusky, in part 



