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Common in decaying wood, under bark, in houses, 

 under stones, &c. 1 found a variety on the river 

 St. John, in East Florida, of which the anterior por- 

 tion of the abdomen and posterior part of the thorax 

 is rufous. This species considerably resembles C. 

 Hermanni of Leach, (Zool. Misc. vol. 3, p. 490 



2. C. *oblongus. Second joint of the anterior feet 

 liardly twice as long as the first, rather larger to- 

 wards the base ; thorax polished. 



Inhabits North A,merica. 



Cabinet of the Academy. 



Body oblong, sublinear; thorax reddish brown, 

 polished, testaceous at base, rather abruptly attenua- 

 ted from the middle to the tip, and with abbreviated 

 Sexible Lairs, instead of spinules ; feet pale, testa- 

 ceous ; palpi reddish- brown, with dilated, short 

 joints, and furnished with numerous flexible hairs, 

 second and third joints subequal, the latter rather 

 shorter and' dilated in the middle; hands ovate, 

 almost truncated at base ; fingers shorter than the 

 hand* and with a few longer hairs ; abdomen above 

 brownish, slightly hairy, polished, margins of the 

 incisures testaceous. Smaller than the last. 



Occupies the same situations as the preceding. It 

 bears considerable resemblance, in the form of the 

 palpi, to the C. Geoffroyi of Leach, (Zool. Misc. p. 

 00.) This species, as well as the preceding, are 

 readily distinguishable from the Phalangium aca- 

 roides of Linne, by the mutic antepenultimate seg- 

 ment of the palpi. 



