»/. H. Emerton — Canadian Spiders. 413 



Gnaphosa conspersa Thorell. 



, Bull. Hay den's U. S. Geological Survey, 1877. 

 Gnaphosa gigantea Keyserling. Zool. bot. Ges., Wien, 1887. 

 G. conspersa Em., New Eng. Drassidte, 1890. 



Large numbers were found by Mr. Bean around Laggan and up to 

 over 6700 ft., on the neighboring mountains. Lake of the Woods ; 

 Rocky Mts., Colorado, up to 11000 ft., on Gray's Peak. Washing- 

 ton Territory and Portland, Oregon, S. Henshaw. Common in 

 New England. 



Gnaphosa brumalis Thorell 



Spiders from Labrador, in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 1875. 

 G. Scudderi Thor., Bull. Hayden's U. S. Geological Survey, 1877. 

 G. hrumalis Em., New Eng. Drassidse. 



Laggan, about 5000 ft. Strawberry Harbor, Labrador, A. S. 

 Packard. Ellis Bay, Anticosti, S. Henshaw. Mt. Washington, N. 

 H., above trees. 



Drassus coloradensis Em. 



Bulletin Hayden's U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. iii. No. 2, April, 1877. 



Females, 10™"^ and 11°^" long; 1st legs 12"^'", 4th legs 15'°"^. Color 

 light yellow-brown, covered with gray hairs, resembling D. saccatus. 

 The males more slender, but not much smaller. The epigjmum has 

 two openings toward the front from which a ridge extends toward 

 the hinder edge and is pointed behind. The epigynum is wide 

 behind, with a dark border that extends forward to the openings in 

 front; it is one-sided in several specimens, the right side being 

 longest in some and the left in others, PI. ii, fig, 1h. . The male pal- 

 pus has the patella and tibia of the same length and much shorter 

 than in saccatus. The tibia has three processes on the outer side, 

 one above and two on the outer side, near the end, where both can 

 be seen from above or below, PI. ii, fig. 7a. The palpal organ has 

 been figured in the Bulletin of Hayden's Survey. It has a long 

 pointed dark brown tube on the inner side and a thick process on 

 the outer, with a sharp angle at the end, PI. ii, fig. 7. 



Males from Gray's Peak, Colorado. Males and females near 

 Laggan. 



Drassus robustus Em., N. E. Drassidae. 



A shorter and stouter species than coloraderisis and saccatus. 



The epigynum has two large parallel brown ridges. The tibia of 



the male palpus has a long process, rounded at the end, that extends 



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