270 CLARENCE M. WEED. 



siibsiiiuate. Eye eminence low, canaliculate, with a series of five or six tuber- 

 cles like those on dorsum ou each carina. Mandibles brownish white, tips of 

 claws black; second joint and apical portion of first joint furnished with short, 

 black, stiff hairs. Palpi light brown, rather slender, first four joints with mi- 

 nute tubercles and short black hairs; none of the angles prolonged ; tarsal joint 

 without tubercles, but with hairs; claw moderately robust. Venter, including 

 coxpp, light grayish brown, with many somewhat quadrangular patches of a more 

 pronounced brown, and scattered blotches of chocolate-brown. Trochanters 

 light brown, with many small tubercles; remaining joints of legs cinnamon- 

 brown, more or less annulated with lighter and deeper shades; angular, with 

 longitudinal rows of black spines; sheath of genital organ subcylindrical, trun- 

 cate: shaft robust, with two lateral oval openings near distal extremity, then 

 contracted into a blunt scoop-shaped piece, turned upward at nearly a right 

 angle and terminating in a slender, acute ]ioint. 



Female. — Body 6 — 9 mm. long, 4 — 5 mm. wide ; palpi 4 mm. long. Legs: first, 

 21--29 nun. : second, 39— .52 mm. ; third. 22—29 mm. ; fourth, .30—37 mm. Differs 

 from male as follows: Body larger, rounder. Dorsum darker gray, more mottled, 

 central marking more distinct; tubercles on dorsum smaller, those on eye emi- 

 nence more numerous, and those forming the longitudinal series in front of eye 

 eminence also more numerous. Palpi with hairs, but without tubercles. Legs 

 with annnlations more distinct; trochanters without tubercles; spines on femur 

 less prominent, and those on tibia obsolete; narrow quadrangular patches on 

 venter of abdomen arranged in transverse series. Distal joints of ovipositor 

 blackish ; about thirty in number. 



This species appears to be rarer in New Hampshire than in any 

 of the northern States in whicli I have collected. A few specimens 

 occurred in August at Hanover, and others were collected at Hart- 

 land, Vt., fourteen miles south of Hanover, during the same month 

 by Mr. B. P. Ruggles. The measurements in the al)0ve description 

 are tlie extremes of Ohio specimens, which appear to be about the 

 same as in New Hampshire. 



I published a general account of this species in the " American 

 Naturalist," January, 1892, from which the following paragraphs 

 may be quoted in this connection : 



" The ash-gray harvest-spider passes the Winter in the egg state. 

 A few years ago in Illinois I found a bunch of about a dozen small, 

 white, spherical eggs slightly beneath the soil surface, which were 

 transferred to breeding-cages. During the Spring they hatched into 

 small gray Phalangiids, which were believed to belong to the present 

 species. I have never seen the female engaged in oviposition, but 

 the structure of the ovipositor (Plate XVI, fig. 2A) indicates that the 

 eggs are deposited in the ground about half an inch below the sur- 

 face. In the latitude of central Ohio there are apparently two 

 broods each season, the first maturing late in June or early in July, 



