230 J. Hl. Emerton, 
black. There is a light band each side and one across the front 
of the abdomen. There is also a light middle band indented at 
the sides, extending forward from the spinnerets two-thirds the 
length of the abdomen. The legs are light gray without any mark- 
ings. On the under side of the abdomen there are three dark lines. 
Ipswich, May 20, 1898, in an open field near the shore. Specim- 
ens from New York State were found and sent to Mr. Peckham 
at about the same time. 
Pellenes agilis, Banks. Ent. Soc. N. Y. 1892. 
Pellenes auratus, Pkm. Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc., Oct., 1900. 
(Plate XII, figures 3, 3a, 3b.) 
6 mm. long, the cephalothorax 3 mm. Jong. The female 
is covered with bluish gray hairs, through which can be seen indis- 
tinct white markings on the abdomen and dark gray at the ends 
of the joints of the legs. In alcohol the hght gray color disappears, 
and dingy gray and brown take its place on which the white and 
dark markings show more distinctly. The male is brightly marked 
with black and white. The cephalothorax has a pair of white stripes 
at the sides and another pair just above the lateral eyes extending 
its whole length, and a white middle stripe from the front middle 
eves as far back as the posterior eyes. The abdomen has lateral 
and middle white stripes connected in front; the lateral stripes are 
broken in their hinder half into two white spots, and the middle 
stripe is sometimes broken into spots at the end. The second, 
third, and fourth legs are irregularly ringed with gray and white, 
but the first pair are highly ornamented with long black hairs and 
white spots, Pl. XII, fig.3a,3b. The first leg has the femur black with 
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short hairs like the other legs, the patella white with a crest of 
white hairs above and long black hairs below, the tibia black with 
a white spot on the upper side near the end, and long black hairs 
above and below, the metatarsus and tarsus white. The third legs 
have no peculiar modifications of the patella or tibia. The palpi 
have the tarsus black and the patella white. 
In marsh grass and under sticks and stones along the shore, 
Ipswich, Mass., Long Island, New York. 
Males and females mature about August 1. In dancing before 
the female, the male holds the front legs out sidewise with the 
tibia nearly horizontal and the tarsus turned downward, and walking 
on the other six legs, approaches her by short quick steps without 
much movement from side to side until near enough to touch her 
and then quickly retreats. 
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