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dentations, and with hardly perceptible hairs : tho- 

 rax obtriangular, short; eyes white ;; feet whitish. 



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In forests, on trees, &c. not uncommon. 



2. T. *sericcum. Body oblong-subovate, broadest 

 before, narrowing behind, densely covered with 

 short, silken hair ; thorax elongated, sublinear, 

 slightly contracted before the middle, and with a 

 darker, central line above ; eyes white, placed in a 

 transverse line ; feet paler, whitish. 



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Inhabits trees, in forests, under stones, &c. and is 

 more common than the preceding. 



genus ERYTHR'JEUS. Latr. 



Body without division, the two anterior pairs of 

 feet not distant from the others ; eyes two, sessile ; 

 palpi conic, chelate. 



Species. E. *mamiUatus. Body ovate, granu- 

 lated, reddish-yellow, with a marginal impressed line, 

 edge thickened, a robust, obtusely conic, granulated 

 spine on the anterior lateral edge, before the middle 

 of the disk two indented punctures, a few distant 

 hairs; eyes approximated, whitish ; mandibles gra- 

 nulated, a rounded tubercle on each of the middle 

 above ; jeet paler than the body, yellowish, with 

 scattered hairs. 



Less than one-twentieth of an inch. 



Under bark of trees, &c. Georgia and East Flo 

 fida. 



