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the apex expanding into an alate portion, which continues for 

 about one fifth the entire length of the shaft, then suddenly 

 contracting into a rather robust, curved, canaliculate end, and 

 terminating in an acute point; with two curved spinous hairs 

 just behind the base of the jointed tip. 



Described from several specimens collected in Champaign 

 Co., Ill, 2;3d to 26th June, and 8th July, 1887. 



L. elegans, sp. n. 



• . Body 3.2 mm. long, 2.1 mm. wide. Palpi 2.1 mm. long. 

 Legs: I., 19 mm.; II., 38 mm.; HI., 20 ram.; IV., 29 mm. 



Dorsum blackish at the margins, especially on the abdo- 

 men, and light brownish in the middle, with a faint indica- 

 tion of a central marking. Finely granulate, with numerous 

 very small black tubercles scattered in patches over the surface, 

 and a transverse row of larger whitish tubercles on each abdom- 

 inal segment. Eye eminence prominent; light brown, darker 

 above; canaliculate, with two rows of well developed tubercles, 

 having whitish bases and black tips. Mandibles whitish, tips 

 of claws black. Palpi slender, light brown. Femur, patella, 

 and tibia, with distant, short, spinose tubercles. Tarsus with 

 whitish hairs. Ventrum whitish brown, with a transverse row 

 of tubercles on each abdominal segment, and the pectus and 

 coxffi closely tuberculate. Legs very slender, proximal portions 

 light brown, distally darker. Femora furnished with minute 

 blackish spines. 



Described from two specimens collected in Champaign Co., 

 111., during the autumn of 1886. 



L. politus, sp. n. 



3. Body 5 mm., long, 2.8 mm. wide. Palpi 3.5 mm. long. 

 Legs: I., 25 mm.; II., 51 mm.; III., 26 mm.: IV., 36 mm. 



Dorsum smooth, finely granulate: clear reddish brown, with 

 no marking and only a faint indication (shown by a slightly 

 dark shade) of the usual central marking. Eye eminence rather 

 prominent, black above, canaliculate, with a regular curved 

 series of small, acute, black spines over each eye. Mandibles 

 whitish, with tips of claws black. Palpi slender, whitish, with 



