34 



WOOD, 



Length of body, 0.25. Length of legs, (1) 1.3, (2) 2.2, (3) 1.2, 

 (4) 1.7. 



14. Phalangium grande SAY. 



"Body oval, covered with short spines; ocular tubercle spinous; feet 

 rather short. 



"Body oblong oval, scabrous, with approximated, robust, short acute 

 spinules ; rufo-ferruginous, two impressed transverse lines before the 

 middle ; ocular tubercle prominent, slightly contracted at base, crowned 

 with numerous, robust, acute spinules ; clypeus hardly elevated ; feet 

 rather short; pectus with numerous, minute acute granules; venter 

 with but few. 



"Length of female, nearly seven-twentieths of an inch. Inhabits the 

 Southern States." 



REMARKS. I have never seen any specimens of this 

 species. The description given is the original one of Say. 

 See "The Complete Writings of Thomas Say, on the 

 Entomology of North America, ed. by Dr. J. L. Le^- 

 conte." New York, 1859, vol. ii, p. 14. 



15. Phalangium nigrum SAY. 



P. NIGRUM Say. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences, 1st Series, vol. 2, p. 66. 



Dorsum very firm and hard, its general tint brown, with lighter 

 spots, covered with small black tubercles. Segmentation of the abdom- 

 inal scutum not very well 

 marked. Eye eminence moder- / J 



ately prominent, covered with \r.,^/f ( (} 

 tubercles like those on the 

 dorsum, brownish. Palpi 

 moderate, distally pubescent, 

 not very spiny, their distal 

 joints in the male with rows 

 of small spinous tubercles on 

 their inner surface, which 15 . 15 b. 



tubercles are obsolete in the 15 , Variety. Male (nat- 



15, Female (natural 



size). 



female in whom the nrox- ural size); 156, Penis, 

 i wnom uie prox- ante rior and lateral 



imal joints are more spiny than in the male. Ven- views (magnified). 

 tral surface reddish brown. Coxae, with the proximal portion of the 

 femora, of the same color ; distal end of the femora with the next two 

 articles, blackish brown. Legs granulate, without spines, save very 



