PHALANGES OF THE UNITED STATES. 27 



EEMARKS. I have seen but a single male of this spe- 

 cies, which was received from Prof. E. D. Cope; who 

 found it among the mountains of South-western Virginia. 

 It is, I believe, an out door species living in the woods, 

 and may possibly prove to be the southern representative 

 of P. nigropalpi; bearing the same relation to it that P. 

 vittatum Say does to P. dorsatum of the same author. 



I have also received from the same source as the last 

 two female Harvest-men, which I refer, with a good deal 

 doubt, to the same species. They were taken in the same 

 locality as the last, at a different time. They differ from 

 the male especially in the absence of the spur-like pro- 

 cesses on the palpi, as well as in the color of the tro- 

 chanters. They may represent an undescribed species. 

 The following is a description of them : 



PHALANGIUM sp. ? 



Dorsum darkish or very dark brown, with lighter spots especially 

 upon the sides, and with a more or less obscure central vase-shaped 

 marking extending throughout its whole length, covered with small 

 tubercles. Cephalothorax with two impressed lines posteriorly. Eye 

 eminence very prominent, blackish, with two more or less irregular 

 rows of spines. Abdomen distinctly separated from cephalothorax, 

 its segmentation rather distinct. Palpi light brown, their basal joints 

 roughened with numerous rather large robust spinules, aggregated, 

 scattered or in rows. Ventral surface reddish brown, smooth. Coxae 

 reddish brown, distally tipped with whitish, their basal ends areolated, 

 their anterior inferior borders each with a row of small tubercles, 

 more or less obsolete on the posterior two pairs. Trochanters black, 

 roughened with numerous small black spines. Legs light or dark 

 brown, roughened with very numerous small black spines. 



Length of body, 0.35. Length of Legs, (1) 1, (2) 1.8, (3) 1, (4) ? 



