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 C—Cephalothorax raised, prismatic; face triangular D 
o. truncate anteriorly; face quadrate; eyes in three rows (4, 2, 
4 ttidæ.! 
Sr placed in four rows (2, 2, 2, 2) Oxyopidæ.? 
=~ Eyesplaced in wee rows (4, 2, 2) Lycoside 
x n with three c ar 
Tarsi with two claws F 
FW three paits of spinnerets cs 
4 With only one pair of spinnerets P 
Ga —All the eyes oer diurnal ; second pair of legs longer than the fourth, and 
5 : often than the H 
_ Anterior ay eyes pe all the others nocturnal; second pair of legs 
longer than either the fi r fourth Drassidze 
5 H—Maxillary lamellæ 3 SOR “fillets VETY NMATTOW..c.ccceveee seesevereee Sparassidz. 
4 ode lamellz inclined much beneath the siete portion of a sternum ; 
homisid2. 
—? with a Gilamistrum $ and a cribellum 
g with neither calamistrum nor cribellum M 
Kayes cama Schepens os two PA HineS...coreccesseses plage 
: Eyes similar df 
ephalic portion very convex, strongly separated from the thoracic ee 
2 median e cai forming a compact group, separated from the lateral 
by two li ERESIDA. 
Cephalic ENN ag N median eyes equal, little EYE from the 
u= lateral of the firs leboridz.® 
Tarsi provided =g a nee nF (onychium)?.....s.sersersssesnereeeeeeeso clad 
ye formed of oi only two a: P 
n Wa two pairs of Sen; EaR lower more developed....... veseeseee ENYOIDÆ. 
ith three pairs of spinnere ts. 3 oO 
<an ts equal, arranged in a rosette, all of a single article..... ..... Pholcidæ.8 ~ 
apper vows much longer, formed of two or three articles.. HERSILIDA. 
“File niia than the ocular area Q 
7 wer than the ocular area R 
igs othorax oval, elongate, the SIE portion narrow, raised; N ET PAE 
equal, all formed of a single artic rididz. 
. Short, rounded or rom, the cephalic portion pr aerate 
“Wer spinneret long, of two artic UROcTEIDA. 
known to be represented in the United States are in bold-face type, 
itals, 
"i 
is placed by American writers with the Lycoside. 
i = The maxillary lamelle are apap - ae! ees — a the mai 
Dae POF ix the space between t 
n ‘alamistrum is a comb of stiff Hates on the penultimate joint of the foot 
is an additional spinning organ covered with fine tubes and- 
t of the spinnerets. ae 
following Blackwall, places the species of this family in the Ciniflo- 
"The . z a 
ita in Most spiders are formed of seven articles; the onychium, which 
ho families, forms an eighth. ie 
Unites a famil 
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