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Florida Entomologist 
Official Organ of the Florida Entomological Society 
Vol. [1X AUTUMN NUMBER No. 3 
OCTOBER, 1925 
A NEW GENUS AND TWO NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS 
COLLECTED BY BUFO QUERCICUS (HOLBROOK) 
By C. R. CRosBY AND SHERMAN C. BISHOP. 
Family LINYPHIIDAE 
FLORICOMUS n. gen. 
Type F. floricomus n. sp. 
The male only is known. Abdcmen with a well developed 
dorsal sclerite. Head without impressions and armed with a 
single horn or protuberance arising just below the anterior me- 
dian eyes. Embolic division of the genital bulb without the tail- 
piece present in Ceraticelus, Ceratinopsis and related genera. 
Hind coxae separated by less than the diameter. 
Floricomus floricomus n. sp. 
Male. Length, 1.25 mm. without the cephalic horn. Cephalo- 
thorax grayish yellow, narrowly margined with dark gray; 
viewed from above evenly rounded on the sides behind the 
middle; in front of the middle, the sides are nearly straight 
and strongly convergent, bluntly rounded in front; viewed 
frem the side, the outline is gently arched over the posterior 
part, slightly depressed at the cervical groove and then arched 
rather steeply to the posterior eyes. Head only moderately 
elevated. Clypeus high, nearly vertical and slightly concave. 
Close under the anterior median eyes there arises a long, stout 
horn directed forward and upward, pointed at the tip (fig. 1). 
The upper surface of the horn is clothed with numerous capitate 
hairs increasing in length towards the tip of the horn. Each 
hair bears a large, recurved barb at the tip (fig. 4). 
Posterior eyes in a straight line, the median separated from 
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