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of the back dark brown, and on each side of the latter four 
ocellated brown dots ; legs long and slender, 1. 4. 2. 3. 
Observations. This little spider makes a thin looking web, 
somewhat like Theridion, and dwells in dark places, in folds 
of paper, old rags, &c. 
Habitat. Alabama. 
27. THERIDION? PERTENUE. 
Plate X. Fig. 6. 
Description. Very small, cephalothorax, abdomen, and 
palpi black; feet rufous, 4. 1. 2. 4. 
Observations. Found usually under stones. 
Habitat. Alabama. 
Genus Spintrarvs mihi. 
Characters. © Cheliceres very slender; mazxille slightly 
inclined towards the lip, widest at base, obliquely truncated 
above; lip short, wider at base, slightly emarginate; eyes 
eight, equal, disposed in the form of an ellipse open towards 
the base, two external eyes touching ; feet long, slender, fourth 
pair longer than the first, the third being the shortest. 
Habits. Araneides sedentary, probably making an irregu- 
lar web composed of threads crossed in all directions, sus- 
pending themselves from a single thread, and thus capturing 
insects. Cocoon unknown. 
Remarks. The species which serves as the type of this 
new subgenus could not be referred to THERIDION. This 
will be obvious, when it is observed, that its characters all 
depart from those of that natural subdivision, particularly its 
maxilla which approach the form of that organ in EPEIRA ; 
by the position of its eyes, and the respective length of its 
feet, this spider would seem to approach wandering araneides. 
It may ultimately be located among these. 
