. 534 The American Naturalist. [June, 
THE CINNAMON HARVEST-SPIDER AND ITS VARIA- 
By CLARENCE M. WEED. 
In his monograph of the Phalangiide, published’ in 1868, 
Dr. H. ©. Wood described a well-marked harvest-spider as 
Phalangium ventricosum. The description was drawn up from 
a single female taken near Philadelphia, and specimens of a 
male Phalangium collected in West Virginia supposed to 
belong to the same species. Besides these Dr. Wood had a 
‘number of female harvest-spiders from Nebraska “which pre- 
sent apparently the same specific characters as the former, 
except that the legs are a little shorter. Suites of specimens 
from the two localities would however probably show them to 
be distinct.” 
In the same paper, Dr. Wood described as Phalangium 
formosum another well-marked form found in spring. 
Aside from a mention in 1869 by Dr. Packard in his Guide 
to the Study of Insects (p. 657), and a bibliographical reference 
in 1885 by Professor Underwood,’ these species appear not to 
have been noticed in our literature for nearly twenty years. 
Since then, however, I have referred to them in a number of 
papers. 
My first mention was published in 1887* when I provision- 
ally referred P. formosum to the genus Liobunum, and con- 
jectured, without having seen specimens, that P. venéricosum 
also belonged to that genus. Two years later I published’ 
extended descriptions of P. formosum referring it to Liobunum 
“with considerable hesitancy, as it does not strictly belong 
-there on account of the projecting inner angle of the palpal 
patella. ” 
1Comm. Essex Institute, Vol. VI. 
‘Bull. Ill. St. Lab, Nat. Hist., III, 91. 
