August, '12] ROSENFELD: INSECTS AND SPIDERS IN SPANISH MOSS 339 



ARACHNIDA 



Chiracanthium inclusum 5 690 



Philodromus diversus 4 552 



Dendrj-phantes octavus 3 414 



Anyphaena sp. (young) 2 276 



Grammonota maculata 2 276 



Oxyopes .sralaris (young) 2 276 



]\Iimetus interfector (young) 1 138 



Xysticus piger (young) 1 138 



Total Spiders 20 • 2,760 



Remarks on Insects 



111 this lot of moss we find that there were 16 genera and species 

 of insects as compared with 24 and 26, respectively, from the same 

 quantity of moss taken from Mansura on January 27, 1909, the nearest 

 comparative date. The actual number of insects, however, taken in 

 the Mansura lot, was considerably greater than from the lot taken 

 near Baton Rouge. 



Eleven of these species occurred in the ■v\'inter lots of moss collected 

 at Mansura, nine of which were in the lot collected January 27. 

 Among these are Paromius longulus and Nysius californicus, which 

 occurred in all of the winter lots taken at Mansura, and, also, Pha~ 

 lacrus penicellatus, Anthonormis suturalis and Lixus musculus, which 

 occurred in five of the six winter lots from Mansura. 



The five species collected which had not been previously recorded 

 from the moss, were Megilla maculata, Chalyhioyi caeruleum, Elaphidion 

 paraUelum, Entylia sinuata and Scymnus coUaris. 



Remarks on Spiders 



Of spiders we find that there were eight genera and species, or the 

 same number as was found in the Mansura moss of January 27. 

 The actual number of individual spiders taken was also about the 

 same as the number taken from the Mansura lot of comparative date. 

 Six of these spiders had been collected from other winter lots, four 

 being recorded for the lot of January 27. 



The two species which had not j^et been taken from moss were, 

 Chiracanthium inclusum, and Xysticus piger. Two species, Philodro- 

 mus diversus and Grammonota macidata, had occurred in six of the 

 previously recorded winter lots, and one, Dendryphantes octavus, had 

 occurred in four. 



Estacion Experimental, February 17, 1912 



