460 Hentz's Descriptions of the 
Observations. This beautiful slender species moves like a 
mouse, and with such rapidity, as to make it quite an arduous 
undertaking to capture it. The male and female have been 
repeatedly found with the same colors and marking. One 
specimen, soon after being inclosed in a glass tube, made a 
beautifully wrought tent like that of Arrus, open at both 
ends. It would seem that this spider has a fixed place of 
abode, from which it issues for hunting excursions, for a female 
was observed by some children, several times on the same 
plant, repeatedly escaping to the ground when pursued, until 
it was at last taken in the very same spot. A female ina 
state of gravidity was found September 30th, agreeing 1n 
every description except in having obscure bands in the form 
of an A ; about four distinct ones, near the apex. 
Habitat. Alabama. August, October. 
16. HERPYLLUS ZONARIUS. 
Plate XXIV. Fig. 17. 
Description. Brown ; abdomen piceous, with two trans 
verse white bands interrupted in the centre, unspotted beneath ; 
feet varied with brown and yellowish. A small species. : 
Observations. This little spider is probably not a variety 
of H. auratus. Its feet are not so filiform. It runs WI 
great celerity. 
Habitat. Alabama. September. 
17. HERPYLLUS TRILINEATUS. 
Plate XXIV. Fig. 18. 
Description. Rufous; abdomen with three transverse 
golden yellow lines or bands produced by hairs, rufous un- 
spotted beneath; feet, slender and long, paler towards the 
extremity, penult joint blackish, particularly of the first and 
second pair. Both sexes alike. 
Observation. This spider was found wandering- 
Habitat. Alabama. April, May. 
