PHALANGES OF THE UNITED STATES. 29 



eminence slender, rather high, light brown, with several robust acute 

 spines, which are at their bases gray, but are tipped with black. Falpi 

 rather slender, moderately long, without processes, but roughened 

 by numerous small blackish spines. Ventral surface light gray, rough- 

 ened by numerous small obtuse tubercles. Coxce very large, gray, 

 laterally dotted with black, very strongly roughened with large, 

 obtuse tubercles. Trochanters blackish, often mottled with gray, with 

 rather large spines, similar to those on the eye eminences. Feet prox- 

 imally blackish, distally often grayish, sometimes tipped with blackish, 

 roughened by numerous small acute spines. 



Length of body, $, 0.3. Length of legs, $, (1) 1, (2) 1.7, (3) 1.1, 

 (4) 1.3. 



Remarks. I have seen but a single specimen, a female, 

 caught by Prof. F. V. Hayclen, in Nebraska. 



9. Phalangium verrucosum Wood (nov. sp.). 

 Male. — Dorsum hard, of a neaiiy uniform golden tint, with indi- 

 cations of a blackish central mai'king behind the eye spot, thickly cov- 



^^^ ered with small tubercles. Ej^e eminence 



prominent, blackish on top, with a row of 

 prominent, spinous tubercles surmounting 

 each black eye. Cephalothorax with a slight 

 ''Sie\twMch'?hl''poinuf impressed line immediately behind the eye 

 set on the boay (magmfled). eminence, and a second very strongly 

 marked one posterior to this, very distinctly separated from abdomen 

 by a curved impressed line. Segmentation of the abdominal scutum 

 very marked posteriorly, not so much so anteriorly. Palpi slender, 

 grayish, with none of their angles prolonged, beset on their upper 

 surface with numerous small spines irregularly arranged in rows. 

 Ventral surface light gray, with the coxae closely studded with large 

 prominent tubercles, giving under the glass a sort of warty appear- 

 ance. Trochanters blackish, more or less covered with similar tuber- 

 cles. Legs reddish brown, rather long and slender, armed with series 

 of small blackish spines. Penis of the male very broad, rather short, 

 nearly straight, thickened and somewhat dilated distally where it is 

 alate, abruptly contracted into a rather robust end, which finally ter- 

 minates in a very acute point, which is bent at an angle to the shaft, 

 and furnished with two pairs of small lateral hooked spines at the 

 base of the slender portion. 



Length of body, $, 0.2. Length of legs, <?, (1)? (2) 1, 5, (3) 1.7, 

 (4) 1.3. 



Remarks. I have seen only some males, in the collec- 

 tion of Essex Institute. Locality unknown. 



