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contracted at base and acute at tip ; palpi white, a 

 little hairy, rather surpassing the tip of the head; 

 tergum with a deeper red eye on each side over the 

 interval between the anterior and second pairs of 

 feet, anteriorly indented, and with two lines each of 

 four or five indented points. 



Length one-thirtieth of an inch. 



Cabinet of the Academy. 



Of this species. I have found a specimen adhering 

 near the base of the palpi of an Aranea 



The head-like process, is sometimes retracted so 

 as to be not prominent, but is not long withheld in 

 this position. The body is somewhat contractile, 

 not perceptibly as regard its length, but in its breadth, 

 by an irregularly undulated motion of the edge. 



2. L. *hispidtis. Body suboval ; head with a dis- 

 tinct neck ; palpi more robust at base; feet elonga- 

 ted, much longer than the body, filiform and fur- 

 nished with numerous robust, incumbent, flexible 

 setae, about twice the diameter of the leg in length. 



My Cabinet. 



I took no less than ten of these animals from a 

 Phalangium, to which they adhered very strongly ; 

 when feeding, they often are supported only by the 

 rostrum and palpi, the body and feet being elevated 

 go as to be sometimes perpendicular to the support- 

 ing surface. 



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