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is as wide as long, and extends backward between the fourth coxae, 

 as wide as the coxpc themselves. The epigynum has a wide trans- 

 parent lobe in the middle, at each side of which the brown spenna- 

 thecse show through the skin, and from which two dark bands curve 

 in half circles toward the middle. 



The male palpi are simple with a slender tube curving forward 

 toward a small terminal process with two teeth. Near the base of 

 the tube there is a small dark tooth, and under it, directed toward 

 the inner side, is a pale club-shaped process. The tarsal hook is 

 very small and hard to see. The tibia is widened at the end with 

 no processes or branches, except a slight raised and straight edge 

 on the upper side. 



The females have been found in small numbers at several places 

 near Boston under leaves in early spring. Adult males and several 

 females were swept from low plants on Mt. Holyoke, Mass., on 

 June 20th. 



Caseola alticeps, new. (Plate II, figures 2 to 2e.) 



1.5 mm. long with the general appearance of Lophocarcnum rather 

 than Ccratinclla. The males only are known, and they have the 

 head narrow and elevated, somewhat as in Ceratinopsis interpres. 

 The eyes are all on the elevation and so are closer together than 

 in herbicola. The front middle eyes are only a little smaller than 

 the upper middle pair. The cephalothorax is nearly as wide as 

 long. The abdomen is oval and covered with scattered hairs, which 

 are finer and more numerous than in herbicola. 



The male palpi have the tibia widened up and down with a tootli 

 on the outer side. The palpal organ is simple, having on the inner 

 side a club-shaped appendage like herbicola. The tube ends between 

 two processes at the tip of the organ, one flat and transparent, and 

 the other short and fine, with a peculiar curve at the end. The 

 tarsal hook is very small and easily concealed. 



One from Three-mile Island in May, dark colored, and one from 

 Waltham, Mass. in November, which is pale. 



Grammonota gigas. (Plate II, figures 8 to 8b.) 

 Erigonoplus gigas, Banks. Canadian Entomologist, 1896. 



Two males of this species were found under a board at Ipswich 

 Bluff, Plum Island, Mass. by Miss Mary T. Palmer, June, 1906. They 

 are 2.5 mm. long and resemble in size and color G. pictilis. There 

 are markings on the back of the abdomen as in pictilis, but the 

 front half is stained with yellow over the other markings. The 



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