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Family Linyphihle 
Subfamily Lophocarenin^e 
Genus Floricomus Crosby and Bishop 1925 
Floricomus emertoni nom. nov. 
Histagonia nasuta Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., 1911, 
16 : 390, pi. 1, fig. 9, name preoccupied by Simon, Hist. Nat. 
Araignees, 1894, 1 : 583. 
Floricomus nasuta Bishop and Crosby, Journ. N. Y. Ent. 
Soc., 1935, 43: 33, figs. 7-11. 
The genus Histagonia was based by Simon in 1894, on a 
small species found in Africa. In his preliminary remarks, 
he placed in the genus, a species to which he refers as 
Pholcomma nasutum Emerton. His use of the name nasutum 
was obviously a lapsus calami, although it was used four 
times, for the reference to the Trans. Conn. Acad., 1882, 
6 : 30, shows that he intended Pholcomma rostratum Emer- 
ton. This was overlooked by Emerton, when he described 
a new species in 1911 and again by Bishop and Crosby when 
they revised the genus Floricomus in 1935. I propose the 
name emertoni for Histagonia nasuta Emerton, 1911. 
Family Argiophle 
Subfamily Aranein^e 
Genus Aranea Linneus 1758 
Aranea juniperi (Emerton) 
Epeira juniperi Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., 1884, 
6 : 313, pi. 34, fig. 6, pi. 36, figs. 14, 15, 16 ; ibid. 1909, 14 : 200, 
pi. 5, fig. 1. 
This species was described from a female found on an 
island in Portland Harbor, Maine. The male was not found 
until several years later. Mr. Emerton then figured the male 
and the first and second pairs of legs. Unfortunately, he 
confused the position of the spines on the femora and shows 
them as ventral, rather than prolateral. This in some genera 
is of minor importance, but the genus Aranea, (Eperia) is 
divided by the presence or absence of ventral spines on the 
anterior femora. Aranea juniperi has no ventral spines on 
