Theridion globosum, Hentz. 



Tlic male of this species is 2 mm. long with the first leg 5 mm. 

 long. The head extends forward a little more than in the female 

 and the front middle eyes are as far from the upper middle pair 

 as they are from each other. The abdomen is round and not as 

 much elevated as in the female ; it has a black spot on the hinder 

 half, but the light area around it is not as distinct as in the female. 

 There is a black spot in the middle of the under side of the ab- 

 domen. PI. I, fig. 1. 



The male palpus has the tarsus prolonged into a slightly curved 

 horn, and opposite this on the outer side of the palpus the bulb 

 extends into a sharp ]ioint curved like the horn, but half as large. 

 Figs, la, lb. 



Fitzwilliam, N. H., with female, July 21, 1907. Blue HUls, Milton, 

 Mass., Miss Bryant, June 2o, 1904. Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, 

 N. Y., July 4, 1907. 



Teutana grossa, Koch. 



Female 8 mm. long, cephalothorax 3 mm. The cephalothorax is 

 shaped as in Iriangiilosa, but the sternum is heartshaped and does 

 not extend backward between the fourth coxae. The cephalothorax 

 and legs are dull 3'ellow without any markings. The abdomen is 

 purplish brown with lighter markings forming a half circle near the 

 anterior end and a middle row of triangles. PI. I, fig. 2. On the 

 under side the abdomen is of the same color with fine oblique 

 lighter lines at the sides. The epigynum has a dark semicircle 

 across it in front, much as in triaiigtilosa. Fig. 2a. 



One female in company with triaiigulosa in cellar of the building 

 of the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. A European species probably in- 

 troduced. 



Pedanostethus fuscus. 



Steatoda fusca, Em. Canadian Spiders, Trans. Conn. Acad., 1894. 

 This species has now been found in the White Mountains in the 

 Carter Notch, Crawford Notch and the Great Gulf of Mt. Washington. 

 It resembles P. piiiuiliis but is one-half larger. In size and color it is 

 like Tmeiicus brnnnciis with which it lives. The epigynum is without 



