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a pin, when the female furiously rushed out and boldly gi'asped 

 him, struggling to carry him off ; and she nearly succeeded in 

 robbing me of my prey, which she seemed to consider her own. 

 I have found this species hibernating in silken tubes, along 

 with various species of Attus, in December and January. 

 This proves that Dysdera pumila is not a variety of it. 

 Habitat. North Alabama. 



[?, length, 9 mm.; cephalothorax, 4 mm.; legs, 8.6, 8.5, 6.2, 8. 



Front foot with hau-s removed, PL 20, fig. 2. 



Cephalothorax and legs yellow brown, darkest toward the head. Abdo- 

 men purplish brown, lighter at the sides. Young lighter, with cephalotho- 

 rax and legs yellow. The original drawings lost. 



Salem, Mass., July 10, ?, in old mud cell of wasp under a stone, with 

 cocoon of thirty-four eggs. Another ? in closed silk tube, with cocoon 

 of eggs. 



Providence, R. I., Oct. 29. Young and old in thick silk tubes under 

 bark. 



Mayport, Fla. ; Ohio. Wm. Holden. j. h. e.] 



2. Pylarus pumilus. 



PI. 2, fig. 5. 



Description. Livid yellow ; abdomen dusky on the disk and 

 towards the apex ; first and second pairs of legs with the two 

 last joints dusky ; hairy. 



Observations. This species is usually found under the bark 

 of trees, enclosed in silk tubes. 



Habitat, North Carolina, North Alabama. 



[Probably young of P. bicolor. j. ii. E.] 



Genus. Filistata. Latr. 



Characters. Cheliceres small, incapable of reciprocal motion, 

 fang very small ; maxillce bent and surrounding the lip, terminat- 

 ing in a point ; lip more than half the length of the maxillce, 

 widest in the middle, ending in a point; eyes eight, subequal, 

 placed closely together on a common elevation, [227] two in the 



