34 



WOOD, 



Length of body, 0.25. Length of legs, (1) 1.3, (2) 2.2, (3) 1.2, 

 (4) 1.7. 



14. Phalangium grande Say. 



''Body oval, covered with sJiort spines; ocular tubercle spinous; feet. 

 rather short. 



''Body oblong oval, scabrous, with approximated, robust, short acute 

 spinules ; rufo-ferruginous, two impressed transverse lines before the 

 middle ; ocular tubercle prominent, slightly contracted at base, crowned 

 with numerous, robust, acute spinules ; cly])eus hardly elevated ; feet 

 rather short; pectus with numerous, minute acute granules; venter 

 with but few. 



"Length of female, nearly seven-twentieths of an inch. Inhabits the 

 Southern States." 



Eemaeks. I have never seen any specimens of this 

 species. The description given is the original one of Say. 

 See "The Complete Writings of Thomas Say, on the 

 Entomology of North America, eel. by Dr. J. L. Le- 

 conte." New York, 1859, vol. ii, p. 14. 



15. Phalangium nigrum Say. 



p. NIGRUM Say. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences, 1st Series, vol. 2, p. 66. 



Dorsum very firm and hard, its general tint brown, with lighter 

 spots, covered with small black tubercles. Segmentation of the abdom- 

 inal scutum not very well 



marked. Eye eminence vao^er- 



ately prominent, covered with 



tubercles like those on the 



dorsum, brownish. Palpi 



moderate, distally pubescent, 



not very spiny, their distal 



joints in the male with rows 



of small spinous tubercles on 



their inner surface, which 



tubercles are obsolete in the 15 «, Variety. Male(nat- 



female in whom the prox- ^SS^'aid^'lateti 

 imal joints are more spiny than in the male. Ven- views (magnified). 

 tral surface reddish brown. Coxoi, with the proximal portion of the 

 femora, of the same color ; distal end of the femora with the next two 

 articles, blackish brown. Legs granulate, without spines, save very 



15 6. 



15, Female (natural 

 size). 



