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(Biarcuata.) 



3. Micrommata marmorata. 



PI. 7, fig. 5. 



Description. Pale gray or whitish ; abdomen with an obso- 

 lete [194] scalloped band, grayish black; feet, varied with 

 grayish black, 2. 1. 4. 3., or sometimes 2. 4. 1. 3. A large 

 species. 



Observations. This spider lives on trees and bushes, where 

 it watches for prey, with extended legs. A female was found 

 in May, in the leaf of a Moms multicaulis. It had made its 

 cocoon there, and surrounded itself with a snow-white tent in 

 all directions. Transferred under a tumbler, it moved its 

 cocoon twice before it could be satisfied with a new location, 

 and made another smooth, white web. It remained constantly 

 by its cocoon, which it embraced closely with its long legs. 

 The cocoon is white, orbicular, and suspended by one thread in 

 the middle of the tent. 



Hahitat. North Alabama. 



[PI. 18, fig. 56, eyes ; fig. 105, trophi. Prof. Hentz had 

 formerly considered this to be the type of a new subgenus, for 

 which he gave the name of Dapanus, distinguished by having 

 its second pair of legs longest, the eyes subequal, the hinder 

 row curved posteriorly. Suppletnent.^ 



[Marietta, Ohio. Wm. Holden. J. n. e.] 



4. Micrommata carolinensis. 

 PI. 6, fig. 9. 



Description. Testaceous or brownish ; cephalothorax Avith 

 two approximate longitudinal darkish bands on the disc ; abdo- 

 men with two longitudinal rows of abbreviated lines, and two 

 rows of small dots within these, white ; sometimes attaining 

 great size, 1.84, nearly two inches, from the end of the first 

 pair of legs to that of the fourth. 



Observations. This spider is found wandering on trees, 

 walls, etc., and sometimes in houses, in search of prey. It is 



