228 ./. //. Emerton, 



appears black. The abdomen is white with a middle gray band 

 broken at the edges by spots and indentations. The legs are white 

 with black spots at the ends of the joints. 



The epigynum is large for so small a spider and is at the end 

 of the first third of the abdomen. It has two large spermathecae 

 that show through the skin, and two small openings in front of them. 



Hyctia Pikei, Pkm. Trans. Wisconsin Acad., 1888. (Plate XI, 

 figures 7, 7 c.) 



Cephalothorax and abdomen both elongated and narrow, whole 

 length 6 to 8 mm., cephalothorax 2.5 to 3 mm. Abdomen 1.5 to 

 12 mm. wide; cephalothorax two-thirds as wide as long, a little 

 wider in males than in females. The second, third and fourth legs 

 are short and slender, but the first pair are thickened in both sexes, 

 in the females twice as long as the cephalothorax, and in the males 

 lunger. The color is light gray with brown markings. In females 

 the cephalothorax has three light brown longitudinal stripes, two 

 extending the whole length from the lateral eyes and a middle 

 stripe on the hinder half only. The abdomen has three fine stripes 

 or rows of spots, sometimes forming a broken wide middle stripe. 

 In males the whole middle of the abdomen has a wide brown 

 middle band partly divided into triangular spots. Young individuals 

 sometimes have no markings at all and are greenish in color like 

 the sand grass in which they live. When approaching the female 

 the male raises his front legs stiffly upward at an angle of sixty 

 degrees with each other, and lifts the abdomen slightly, walking 

 on the six short legs. 



The sternum is half as wide as long and pointed at both ends, 

 and the first and fourth coxae are close together and may touch 

 each other. The epigynum has a simple oval opening with a 

 thickened edge in front. The male palpi are very short; the patella 

 is as long as wide, and the tarsus is shorter, but with a thick 

 pointed process on the outer side, as long as the rest of the tibia. 

 The tarsus is curved downward and has a ridge along the outer 

 side, the part below which is smooth, with few and short hairs. 

 The bulb of the palpal organ projects at the base in a long blunt point. 



Common on sand grass along the sea shore. 



Pollcnes viridipes, Hentz. 



Pellenes Howardi, Pkm. Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc, Oct., 1900. 

 Attus viridipes, Hentz. Boston Journal Nat. Hist. 1846. (Plate XII, 

 ligures 5, 5 a.) 



