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from dark cinnamon-brown to ferine;! nous brown, most commonly cinnamon 

 rufous. Ventrum ligbt grayish brown. Dorsum closely granulate with an in- 

 distinct darker marking, and numerous small grayish spots arranged in irregular 

 transverse series. Eye eminence black, except at base ; rounded, not caniculate, 

 smooth, or with a few sn)all, acute tubercles. Palpi rather slender, with none 

 of the angles prolonged ; femur with a very few small spinous tubercles and 

 hairs; patella strongly, and femur and tibia slightly, arched ; coxaj minutely tu- 

 berculate, tipped with white; trochanters and legs cinnamon rufous; tarsi 

 dusky. Legs long and moderately robust. Genital organ of male " flat, nearly 

 straight, slender at the basal i)ortion, gradually widening and distally rather 

 quickly expanded into a broad alate portion, and then abruptly contracted into 

 a moderately robust, slightly curved point, which is placed at an angle to the 

 rest of the shaft; at the base of the point a marked notch in the end of the 

 shaft." 



Female. — Body 10.5 mm. long; 5.5 mm. wide; palpi 5 mm. long. Legs: first. 

 32 mm. ; second, 62 mm. ; third, 32 mm. ; fourth, 45 mm. Differs from the male 

 in the very much larger size of its body. The abdomen in most specimens is 

 greatly swollen, especially below. 



Illinois : Champaign County. Maine : Penobscot County (F. L. 

 Harvey). Michigan : Shiawassee County (D. S. Kellicott). Ne- 

 braska : Lancaster County (Lawrence Bruner). New York : Tomp- 

 kins County, June 30, 1886 (J. H. Comstock) ; before June 1, 1890 

 (Nathan Banks). North Carolina: Blaming Rock (Geo. F. At- 

 kinson). Ohio: Franklin County, June 13, 1889; July 8, 1890; 

 September 25-30, 1888 ; Warren County, August 7, 1890. 



Two of the Michigan specimens are males and have the joints of 

 the palpi much more arched than usual. 



L.iobuuum verrucosuin (Wood) Weed. Plate VI. 



Phalaiigium verrucosum Wood, Comm. Essex Institute, vol. vi, pp. 29-30, 40. 

 Phalangium verrucosum Wood. Underwood, Can. Ent. vol. xvii, p. 168. 



Hale. — Body 6.5 mm. long; 4.5 mm. wide; palpi 4.5 mm. long. Legs: first. 

 32 mm. ; second, 64 mm. ; third, 31 mm. ; fourth, 46 mm. Dorsum of a beautiful 

 golden color, appearing as if the surface had been gilded over, the back -ground 

 being a clear reddish brown, which in the specimen at hand is visible on the 

 front of the cephalothorax and more or less on margins of abdomen. Dorsum 

 minutely tuberculate. Eye eminence prominent, constricted below, black ex- 

 cept at base, canaliculate, with a series of well-developed tubercles on each carina. 

 Just caudad of eye eminence on cephalothorax is a slightly impressed transverse 

 line, behind which is another one much deeper. Palpi brownish ; tip of femur 

 with patella darker; thickly beset with stifl' hairs and proximal joints having 

 a few scattered tubercles ; joints arched. Ventral surface in specimen at hand 

 vermillion-red, especially coxa-, but ordinarily probably varies from light brown 

 to this color; cox£e tuberculate; tipped with white. Legs rather long; trochan- 

 ters blackish, somewhat tuberculate; rest of legs reddish brown. Genital organ 

 (according to Wood) "very broad, rather short, nearly straight, thickened and 

 somewhat dilated distally where it is alate, abruptly contracted into a rather 



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