Theridion zelotypum, Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., 1882. 



This species is now known all over Maine from Casco Bay to 

 Tort Kent on the northern boundary, but has not yet been found 

 south or west of Casco Bay. It was not found in a week's collecting 

 around the Ht. Washington Glen from 1500 feet to the mountain 

 top. Its westward range has been extended from Winnipeg to 

 Prince Albert, Athabasca Landing and Jasper, Alberta, 4000 feet 

 high in the Rocky Mountains on the headwaters of the Athabasca 

 River. At all these places it lives as in Maine on low branches 

 of spruce trees in open situations, but always near water or in 

 bogs. All those found at Jasper and part of those at Athabasca 

 Landing had the dorsal markings in a different pattern from those 

 commonly found farther east. In these spiders the usual herring- 

 bone middle stripe is entirely absent and the darker markings at 

 the sides form two rows of spots with white lines behind them, in 

 some cases entirely across the back. Fig. la. PI. II. This species 

 was not found on the prairie at Saskatoon or Edmonton, nor in 

 the mountains around Banff or Laggan, nor in the Yoho Valley. 



Theridion sexpunctatum, Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., 1882. 



This species is now known across the continent from Maine to 

 the Rocky Mountains, Vancouver and Sitka. The markings are 

 usually very uniform, the thorax striped and margined with dark 

 gray, and the abdomen marked with six or eight white spots in 

 pairs on larger gray areas of irregular shape; but among some 

 collected at Vancouver there are great variations, one female hav- 

 ing the gray areas on the abdomen absent and the white spots with- 

 out any regular arrangement, while another has the front half of 

 the abdomen covered with a large dark spot like that of Eno- 

 plognatha marmorata. Pigs. 2, 2a, 2b, 2c. PI. II. 



Tmeticus reticulatus. new sp. 



Male 2 mm. long; legs and cephalothorax dull yellow, abdomen 

 gray with faint light markings across the hinder half. The front 



