1892.] The Ash- Gray Harvest-Spider. 



believed to belong to the present species. I ] 

 the female engaged in oviposition, but the s 

 ovipositor (Fig. ± h) indicates that the eggs { 

 the ground, about half an inch below the s 

 latitude of central Ohio there are apparently t 



the second, which is much the more numerous 

 in September. 



species. It abounds especially in sheds, < 

 neglected board piles, being rarely found, so fa 

 ence goes, in the open field. Its color espet 



against such a back-ground. During the di 

 quiet, but at dusk, and on cloudy da vs. it mo 

 rapidly. It probably feeds upon' small flies ai 

 that it finds durin- I!- nocturnal rambles. Tl 



spi.l 



The following descriptions have U-en drawn up from a long 

 series of specimen- collected over a wide range of territory. 



Male (Fig. 1 ; Fig. 2, a, b, d, e)— Body, .5-68 mm. long ; 3-4 mm. wide. Palpi, 

 4 mm. long. Legs, 1, 23-33 mm. ; II, 44-52 mm. ; III, 24-33 mm. ; IV, 31-42 mm. 



Dorsum ash-gray, with a slightly darker, sub-obsolete, wide, vase-shaped, central 

 marking; in some specimens entirely obsolete ; with transverse series of small spinose 

 tubercles behind the eye-eminence, one row on posterior border of cephalothorax, 

 and one on each abdominal segment except last two, and a curved series in front of 

 eye-eminence. These tubercles (Fig. 2, h) have whitish bases, and acute black 



the white portion, and reaching beyond the tip of the tubercle. In front of the eye 

 eminence there are two longitudinal series of these tubercles of three each. Lateral 

 borders of cephalothorax, subsmuate. Eye-eminence low, canaliculate, with a series- 



brownish-white, tips of claws black ; second joint and apical portion of first joint 

 •furnished with short, black, stiff hairs. Palpi light brown, rather slender, first four 

 joints with minute tubercles and short black hairs: none of the angles prolonged; 



including coxa . many somewhat quadrangular patches of a 



II and scattered blotches of chocolate brown. Trochanters 



