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Lophocarenum fasciatum n. sp. 



Plate XXXIX, Figs. 20, 21, and 24. 



Cephalothorax yellowish, side-margins black, eyes on black spots; legs 

 pale on femora, beyond more yellow; mandibles and sternum yellowish; 

 abdomen pale, with a broad basal black band, and behind six interrupted 

 black bars, sides streaked with black; venter pale, with a broad black area 

 back of lung-slits connected to the upper basal band, and a large black spot 

 each side near base of spinnerets. Cephalothorax of male elevated just 

 behind eyes, not very high, with a round hole each side. A. M. E. small, 

 close together, P. M. E. large, their diameter apart, rather closer to the 

 equal P. S. E. Mandibles without tooth in front; legs short, hairy; sternum 

 broadly truncate between hind coxae, broadest on front margin; abdomen 

 short, no shield above. Male palpi have basal joints very heavy, a long, 

 slender, curved tibial hook, and the bulb tipped with a spiral tube, making 

 two and one-quarter turns. 



Length i mm. 



One male from Claremont (Baker). 



Erigone calif ornica n. sp. 



Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 3. 



Length <5 2.2, ? 2.7 mm. Cephalothorax blackish, legs pale yellowish, 

 mandibles yellow-brown, sternum dark, abdomen blackish, or dark gray 

 above and below. Head of male elevated, margins with several teeth, two 

 large ones each side on posterior part, and several on anterior sides; eyes 

 with P. M. E. rather closer to each other than to P. S. E., A. M. E. as large 

 as P. M. E. and slightly closer together, less than their diameter apart; man- 

 dibles large, a hump on each side near base, a large tooth on lower edge 

 and several small ones, on the outer edge are two large, curved teeth slightly 

 below the middle, and above them is a row of smaller ones; maxillae below 

 with a large tooth on outer side; legs moderately long, hairy; abdomen with 

 short fine hairs. Male palpi long, with numerous short teeth on femur, one 

 on outer tip, a large one under middle of tibia, and a large projection below 

 the tip, tarsus rather longer than the tibia, a spine on the base of the swell- 

 ing. In the female there is only a trace of the teeth on the mandibles. Some 

 males are larger, with larger spines and redder cephalothorax and mandibles. 



Laundry Farm, Alameda County, May (Fuchs); Mill 

 Valley, Marin County, May (Fuchs); Mariposa County, 

 July (Eisen); Santa Rosa Island, 20 May; Claremont 

 (Baker). 



November 30, 1904. 



