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line ; feet hairy, with many black rings ; first and second pairs 

 long, with the penultimate joint bent in the female, nearly 

 straight and shorter in the male. 



Observations. This is sufficiently distinct from M. interfector, 

 in the form of its abdomen, and comparative brevity of its feet, 

 particularly in the male. A female was found changing her 

 skin on the ground. Many have been seen, but none were 

 observed to make any web. 



Habitat. Alabama. August-October. 



[Legs arranged 1. 2. 4. 3. Supplement.^ 



3. Mimetus syllepsicus. 

 PI. 15, fig. 15. 



Description. Pale green ; cephalothorax varied with black ; 

 abdomen with a waved line and disk black ; feet and palpi very 

 hairy ; thighs of first and second pair of legs with a black ring 

 near the tip. 



Observations. This spider was found safely hidden in the 

 tent of an Epeira labyrinthea., which it had no doubt first killed. 

 The webs and the cocoon of its victim were uninjvired, and it 

 seemed perfectly at home in its new domicil. How long it 

 would have continued to dwell there, and to avail itself of the 

 industry of its predecessor, I cannot tell, as I took it to describe 

 as a new species of Epeira. 



Habitat. North Carolina. 



[PI. 18, fig. 34, eyes. Legs arranged 1. 2. 4. 3. Taken in 

 October. Supplement.~\ 



Subgenus Thalamia. Mlhi. 



Characters. Eyes eight., subeq^ial, in two rotvs on each side of 

 the front part of the cephalothorax., each row curved imvard 

 above., and outward below ; maxillce wider at [35] base., inclined 

 over the lip ; cheliceres very small ; feet 2. 3. If. 1. 



Observations. Araneides small, forming a tubiilar dwelling 



