270 J)AVKXPOKT ACADEMY OF XATUKAL SCIKNCES. 



IN UNITKB STATES COLLKCTIOXS. 



Total 12fi s])efiinens. 



Florida 5 Colorado 11 Ariz. & N. M 6 



Georgia 2 Wyoming 1 Mexico 8 



Texas 17 California 11 Vucatan 1 



Kansas 2 Arizona 4 ( "osta Rita 1 



Chili 50 Xo Localitv. . , . . . . T United States <)(} 



EXTRACTS 



From the Notes ano CoKREspoNDExrE of J. Di st an Pi.tnam, kei.ating 



TO THE SoLPUOrW/E. 



Denver. Coi.oraoo. Saturday, June32d, 1872. 

 * * * In the afternoon I took a walii: to tlie .south-east of Denver. * * * 

 Under .some dried dung T found the most curious spider ( "?) I ever saw. It 

 differs from any others very rauc-h. — [Journal, Vol. IV, 1H72, page 12. 



Denver, Sunday, June 23d, 1872. 

 * * :i: * In the afternoon I \vr<jte a letter * * to Prof. Hagen, of Cam- 

 l)ridge, Mass., giving a desfrii)tion of the si)ider(V) whicli 1 found ye.sterdaj', 

 and inclosed drawings of it, representing a view from above natural size; a 

 side view of the head and thorax enlarged, and an enlarged view of the up- 

 per part of the head. It seems to me that this insect must belong to the 

 order Fedipalpi, and family Solpugidtu, as limited l)y Packard in his 

 "Guide."— [Journal, Vol. IV, 1872, p. lo. 



Kmpire City, Colorado, M<mday, Jul)- 8th, 1872. 

 * * * * [ received * * * the following letter from Prof. Hagen, of Cam- 

 bridge, in answer to mine written from Denver in regard to a spider: 



Ca.mbridck, M.\ss., June 29, 1872. 

 Mr. J. D. PuTNA.M: Dear Sir — I am very happy to see yonr interesting 

 letter and ligure of the spider. It belongs to the tSo/pvffidie, to the sul)-fam- 

 ily of the Galeodes. So far as I see, it belongs to tlie genus Olui'ia (Koch). 

 Tiiere are four species described from Mexico, (/. prm-o.r, tdongntd. eim-ras- 

 feiix, forriiMirius, but the longe.st one is only six lines = twelve millim ; so 

 I)erhaps your sj)e{'ies is a new one. or a more adult. * * * * Qf course 

 I will be glad to give you any information in my power. 



Yours, truly. If. A. Hagen. 



I believe there is no species described in Anierican pa|>ers of (rltuHa. — 

 [Journal, Vol. IV, 1872, page 4(5. 



Valmont, (loiiORABO, Sunday, June 28th, 1874. 

 I found under a stone, this morning, a \^xy curious spider-like animal — 

 like one which I found in Denver two years ago, which Dr. Hagen said was 

 a new species of Gluvia. — [Journal, 1874, No. T, page 5^. 



