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marked, in male with a large basal pale area containing a dark spear- 

 mark; venter pale or light brown. Anterior eye-row slightly pro- 

 curved, the AI. E. less than one-half their diameter apart, much 

 farther from the plainly smaller S. E. ; eyes of second row a little less 

 than diameter apart ; legs stout ; on tibia I three pairs of spines 

 beneath, the basal pair (in the female) much shorter than width of 

 the tibia, in male longer ; on metatarsus I two pairs of shoi't spines, 

 in male long ones. 



A few specimens from Albemarle in June, Hood in May, and 

 Chatham in May. 



Family ATTID^. 



PLEXIPPUS PAYKULLI Aud. et Sav. 



AuDOUiN et Savigny, Descr. d. I'Egypte, xxii, p. 172 (1827). 

 A//US ligo Walckenaer, Ins. Apteres, i, p. 426 (1837). 



Two specimens, one from Tagus Cove, Albemarle, March, the 



other from James in April. A common tropical spider, extending 



northward into the southern parts of the United States. 



MARPTUSA CALIFORNICA Peckham. 

 Peckham, Attidae of N. Amer., p. 81 (1888). 



One male from Albemarle, in March. Does not appear to differ 

 from typical Californian specimens. Known also from Mexico. 



CYRBA INSULARIS sp. nov. 



Length 6.7 mm. 



Cephalothorax black, abdomen dull black above and below, no trace 

 of the white lines seen in C. tce?tiola^ but venter with a row of pale 

 dots each side ; legs brownish yellow, the first pair darkest, though 

 none are black on any of the joints ; palpi pale ; sternum reddish 

 brown. Cephalothorax flat, similar to C. tceniola^ as is the structure 

 throughout. Epigynum shows a pale cavity nearly as broad as long, 

 traversed by two red parallel lines connected behind. 



One specimen from Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, in January. 



ADMESTINA INSULARIS sp. nov. 



(Plate II, Fig. 4.) 

 Length 3.8 mm. 



Black, with black, white and yellow hairs, the white and yellow 



slightly scale-like ; cephalothorax with mostly black hair, a narrow 



white side-margin ; abdomen above and below sparsely, but regularly 



clothed with white hairs and a few yellow ones on middle of sides 



