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Dendryphantes nubilus (Hcntz). 



Attus nuhihis Hentz, Jour. Bost. Soc. N. H., V, p. 358 (1846). 

 Several examples from under bands on apple and pear trees at 

 Mesilla Park, January (Cockerell). The bands were those which 

 had been put on to catch the larvse of the Codling Moth, 



Dendryphantes vitis Cockerell. 



Dendriiphantes vitis Cockerell, The Entomologist, 1894, p. 207. 

 Described from Las Cruces, April ; also occurs at Mesilla Park, 

 under bands on apple and pear trees (Cockerell). 



Philaeus rimator (Walckenaer). 



Attus rimator Walckenaer, Ins. Apteres, I, p. 446 (1837). 

 F/iidippus auctus Koch, Die Arachn., XIII, p. 148, 1845. 



One female on Larrea at Mesilla Park, January 22. 



Sadala distincta Peckham. 



Sadala distincta Peckham, Trans. Wise. Acad., VII, p. 53 (1888). 

 Recorded from New Mexico in Dr. Marx's Catalogue; described 

 from Mexico. 



Plexippus paykulli ( And. ct Sav.). 



Attus paykulli Audouin et Savigny, Descrii). Egypte, XXII, p. 172 



(1827). 



I have seen a few specimens from New Mexico, Avithout definite 

 locality. 



Marptusa californica Peckham. 



Marptusa californica Peckham, Trans. Wise. Acad., VII, p. 81 (1888). 



Young specimens from Mesilla Park (Cockerell), and also from 

 Prof. Townsend. 



loius neomexicanus n- ^P- 



Cephalothorax reddish, eyes on a black band, two indisiinct dark 

 spots in middle of eye-region, a white stripe each side below eye- 

 region and extending backwaixl, lower sides black, some golden 

 hairs around the anterior eyes; mandibles reddish; sternum red- 

 brown; femora red-brown, rest of legs clear pale yellow, except 

 the patella, tibia and metatarsus of leg I, which are red-brown 

 like the femora; abdomen reddish brown above, with faint indica- 

 tions of a few black spots, the sides of the abdomen are distinctly 

 white, the venter nearly black, spinnerets black. Cephalothorax 

 low and rather long ; the eye-region scarcely as broad behind as 

 in front, eyes of second row rather closer to laterals of first row 



