300 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November, 



OONOPID^. 

 In the Summer of 1894 I found on my desk at Sea Cliff, N. Y., 

 a little spider, which, when touched by the pencil, leaped back- 

 ward an inch to an inch and a quarter. It was collected, and to 

 my surprise, belonged to Orchestina, the species of which are 

 known to leap, and at least one of which occurs in southern Europe. 



ORCHESTINA Simon. 

 Simon, Amer. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1892, p. 237. 

 Orchestina saltitans nov. sp.— Length ii mm. Cephalothorax whitish, 

 with a black marginal line and a black spot around eyes; mandibles pale; 

 legs and palpi yellowish ; sternum whitish ; abdomen purplish above, 

 quite dark near tip, venter pale, spinnerets white. Cephalothorax quite 

 broad, yet plainly longer than broad, and broadest a little before the 

 middle ; highest behind the middle and sloping to the narrow clypeus ; 

 no dorsal groove nor radial furrows; three rows of curved hairs above; eyes 

 large, subequal, all close together. Mandibles quite long, vertical ; lip 

 quadrangular, broader than long ; sternum triangular, longer than broad, 

 emarginate in front, tapering behind and prolonged between the posterior 

 coxae. Legs long and slender, fourth pair as long as first, third pair much 

 the shortest, quite thickly clothed with hairs, two prominent claws; pos- 

 terior femora greatly thickened, fully twice as broad as femur i, and not 

 much over four times as long as broad. Abdomen nearly globuse, but a 

 little longer than high, quite thickly clothed with stiff hairs; spinnerets all 

 close together ; region of epigynum slightly swollen, a transvesse furrow, 

 beneath which is a pale area crossed by a yellow line. 



Sea Cliff, N. Y., July. 



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ERRATA. 

 Vol. v, p. 267, ninth line from top for anal read oval. 

 Page 268, for New York read New Jersey. 

 " 224, for Coptocycla significa read C. signifera. 



Entomological News for October was mailed October i, 1894. 



