138 PSYCHE [December 
were still more numerous around the banks and along lines of rubbish that had 
floated together on the ice. A few had died and were frozen in the ice, others were 
frozen down by the feet but were still alive and thawed out later in the day. Nearly 
all however were free on the ice which along the edges of the floods had frozen under 
them. ‘They were too cold to move but as the air became warmer revived and 
groped slowly about without any definite direction. By noon some of them became 
quite active and climbed grass and bushes and spun threads, the thermometer at this 
time being 35 in the shade and 40 to 50 in the sun. ‘The most active species was the 
little Zmeticus terrestris which was abundant in a maple swamp on the ice and in 
bushes up to a foot from the ground. ‘The greater number of spiders were young 
Lycosidae of all the common species. With the spiders were great numbers of 
Coleoptera and several species of Diptera. Following is a list of the Spiders. 
Adults. Pachygnatha brevis, Pedanostethus riparius, Pholcomma rostrata, 
Ceratinella laetabilis, Carnicularia indirecta, Grammonata ornata, Tmeticus plu- 
mosus, ‘'meticus terrestris, T'meticus concavus, Erigone dentigera, Bathyphantes 
zebra, Diplostyla nigrina. 
Immature. Singa variabilis, Linyphia clathrata, Tetragnatha extensa, Asageva 
americana, Pirata piraticus, Pardosa nigrapalpis, Pardosa glacialis, Lycosa frondicola,. 
Lycosa kochii, Lycosa relucens, Lycosa lepida, Gnaphosa conspersa, Prosthesmia 
atra, Xysticus lunbatus, Dalomedes sexpunctatus. 
J. H. EMERTON. 
THe TiTLe PaGe AND InDex for Volume XVI of PsycuHe will be published with 
the February, 1910, number. 
