40 Journal New York Ent. Soc. lvol. ii. 



THE PHALANGIDA OF NEW YORK. 



Bv Nathan Banks. 



The State of New York extending from Lake Erie to the 

 Atlantic coast lies in parts of several quite different faunal regions ; 

 viz., the Western or Prairie, the Northern or Mountains, and the 

 Atlantic or Southern region. So it will doubtless appear that the 

 Phalangid fauna of the state is quite extensive, and this list can 

 only claim to be preliminary. Most of the species that I give, 

 have, however, never been recorded from the State. 



There are two families represented, both belonging to the 

 Phalangida Plagiostethi (Palpatores). 



A claw at end of palpus PhalangidiE. 



No claw to palpus NemastomatidEe. 



Of the Nemastomatidiii we have but one genus and species, 

 P/i/('!^inacera cavicoleus Pack. This was decribed from the caves of 

 Kentucky but is not a strictly cave form as I have collected it in 

 a gorge at Ithaca, N. Y., and Prof. C. M. Weed records it from 

 New Hampshire under the name of Sabacon spinosus. The Phalan- 

 gidie, the more common forms of the order, and ordinarily called 

 "daddy-long-legs',, "harvest-men", etc., embrace several genera. 



\ Several prominent spines on second joint of palpus .... 2 



/ Wliitliout prominent spines on j^alpus ...... 4 



Eye-tubercle smooth, eyes very large ...... Caddo. 



Eye-tubercle spinose, eyes normal ....... 3 



f No false articulations in metatarsi I, eye-tubercle quite remote from anterior 



niaroin Lacinius. 



3 

 I At least one false articulation in metataisus I, eye-tubercle farther 



\ forward , . Oligolophus. 



f A group of spines on anterior margin of cephalothorax, dorsum 

 4^ with transverse rows of spines .... Phalangium. 



I .-Vnterior margin smooth, abdomen smooth ..... 5 



f Kemur I much shorter than body, in females not as large as 



I width of body Leptobunus. 



I Femur 1 longer than body, or in some females a little shorter 



^ than body Liobunum. 



Of Caddo we have but one species. C. agilis Banks, found on 

 Long Island. Its enormously large eyes readily separate it from 

 all other Plialangids. It belongs to the southern fauna as it is 

 known from I). C. 



Oligolophus and Laci/iii/s are each represented by a single 

 species, O.pictus Wood and /.. <V//(V//.y/V Weed, both of which occur 

 at Ithaca, N. Y. 



