22 WOOD, 



3. Phalangium nigropalpi Wood (nov. sp.)- 



3 a, male (natural size); 3 6, female (natural size); 3 c, under surface of body, 

 showing the penis protruded (magnified), d, body of penis, e, its sheath. 



Dorsum reddish brown ; in the males of a nearly uniform tint, 

 with some obscure grayish specks ; in the females of a darker color, 

 with a more or less obsolete central vase-shaped marking, and some 

 grayish specks ; with very minute tubercles, giving rather a velvety 

 than rough appearance to the unaided eye. Segmentation of the 

 abdominal scutum not marked. Eye eminence prominent, black, with 

 a double row of rather small and distant spinous tubercles. Palpi 

 rather long; in the male black, excepting the distal article, which is 

 mostly brownish, with very few spinous tubercles, save a row on the 

 inner side of the distal article, very pilose, with none of the angles 

 prolonged ; in the female brown, without the row of spinous tubercles 

 on the distal article, but with the others perhaps more pronounced 



