jui.e, 1^04.) Banks: Nearctic Spiders. Ill 



under tibiae III and IV, others on sides. Sternum once and one half broader than 

 long, broadest at cox?e II, tapering in front and behind. Length, 12 mm. 



One female from Lakeside, California. 



Syspira pallida, new species. 



Cephalothorax pale yellowish, a brown mark each side on anterior furrows, and 

 fainter ones on other furrows, a blackish patch behind side eyes, and one in middle 

 of head. Legs pale yellow, the femora faintly barred above near tip with blackish, 

 and the hind tibiae at base and near tip. Mandibles yellow-brown ; sternum and 

 venter yellowish ; abdomen gray. Legs rather slender, 3-3 spines under tibise I and 

 II, metatarsi and tarsi I and II scopulate ; tibiae III and IV with two sp nes above, 

 and ^-^ below. Anterior eye-row straight, A. M. E. large, about one half diameter 

 apart, much closer to smaller A. S. E., quadrangle of M. E. nearly square ; posterior 

 eye-row weakly recurved, barely longer than anterior row, P. M. E. about diameter 

 apart, and a trifle farther from the much larger P. S. E., latter not their diameter 

 from A. S. E. Sternum but little longer than broad, broadest behind co.\je II, 

 broadly rounded behind. Abdomen about one and one half times longer than broad. 

 Length, 12 mm. 



One immature specimen from Mesilla Park, New Mexico, 29 

 January, in a hole in the ground (Cockerell). The only species of 

 this Mexican genus yet recorded from our country. 



Lophocarenum frontalis, new species. 



Male ; cephalothorax yellowish-brown ; abdomen black ; legs yellowish ; P. M. 

 E. more than diameter apart, closer to P. S. E., posterior eye-row slightly recurved. 

 All eyes situate on a large cephalic hump, broadly truncate behind, and connected in 

 front to another hump which projects forward much in front of the mandibles. 

 Legs slender and hairy. Sternum triangular, about as broad in front as anywhere. 

 Female difl'ers from male in reddish-brown cephalothorax, and the posterior eye-row 

 straight, the P. M. E. but little more than diameter apart. Length, 9 1.6 mm. ; 

 ^ 1.4 mm. 



Taken at Falls Church, Va., under stones in the woods. 



Epeira emertoni, new species. 



A small species of the size of £. pi-ompta, but with the abdomen not higli at 

 tip, more convex above, and with a pale median stripe on venter like E. lahyrinthea ; 

 there is, however, no pale spot in black sternum. The abdomen shows a rather 

 broad folium above tapering behind, margined with pale and with a darker central 

 stripe ; this folium does not reach base, which is quite pale in the middle. Cephalo- 

 thorax is pale in middle, dark on sides. The legs are pale, and short ; the femora 

 banded with brown near tips, and the tibiae less distinctly so. The epigynum shows 

 a recurved pointed figure much as in £. p7\impta. The abdomen is not so pointed 

 as in E. prompta and E. 7'<i,',?v?, nor so high at lip. 



Sea Cliff, N. Y. ; VVashington, D. C, and Auburn, Ala. After 

 his description of Epeira nionnon, Keyserling speaks of a specimen 

 from the District of Columbia which had a pale median mark on the 



