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spinnerets; the sternum is yellow; the legs are sometimes finely pointed 

 with black. The abdomen projects beyond the spinnerets farther than in 

 L. borealis. 



I have collected it in eastern Texas, where it makes an oblique 

 web in grass. Hentz had it from South Carolina and Alabama. 



Oercidia Thorell, 1870. 



This g-enus is also close to Shiga, but differs in having the 

 fourth pair of legs longer than the first. The abdomen is 

 pointed in front like that of Larinia. One species is known in 

 Europe, and I have received it in a collection of spiders from 

 Franconia, N. H., made by Mrs. A. T. Slosson. 



Gercidia prominens W'estring. 



Singa scutigera Westr. 



Epeira bella Mead. 



Atea spinosa Ohl. 

 Lengths mm. Cephalothorax red; mandibles red with a black spot; 

 sternum black; legs yellowish with brown rings; abdomen brownish 

 above, with a large reddish shield nearly covering the dorsum, an indis- 

 tinct light stripe and behind some transverse black lines; venter with a 

 median black stripe as wide as sternum, yellowish each side; there are 

 five short black spines in front on the dorsal shield, and four prominent 

 muscular spots above. The cephalothorax has above on the median line 

 two prominent spines. The epigynum consists of a short and broad 

 finger arising from the anterior edge of a cavity which is much broader 

 than long. 



One female. Franconia, N. H. 



€N THE SPECIFIC IDENTITY OF /ESCHNA CLEPSYDRA Say 

 and /E. CRENATA Hagen {eremita Scudder). 



By Philip P. Calvert, Philadelphia, Pa. 



In my recent "Catalogue of the Odonata (Dragonflies) of the 

 vicinity of Philadelphia, with an Introduction to the Study of 

 this group of Insects" (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, pp. 152^-272, 

 1893), I have placed Aischna crenata Hagen 1856, and y^. ere- 

 mita Scudder 1866, as synonyms of clepsydra Say 1839, prom- 

 ising in a foot-note (p. 248) to present the evidence for this ac- 

 tion later. This paper is a fulfilment of that promise. 



The specific identity of crenata and eremita has been known 

 since 1875, and needs no discussion here. 



Having suspected that clepsydra and eremita were but two ex- 



