PSYCHE 
VOL. XLIII DECEMBER, 1936 
No. 4 
NEW SPECIES OF SOUTHERN SPIDERS 
By Elizabeth B. Bryant 
Museum of Comparative Zoology 
Cambridge, Mass. 
During the winter and spring of 1935 a student at South- 
ern Methodist University collected spiders throughout Dal- 
las County, Texas. It is a section of the country from 
which little is known of the spider fauna. Among them 
were five new species and the male of a species known only 
from the typel from Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. From a 
small collection from Florida two species were found to be 
new and from the Florida Keys was found a male of a Cu- 
ban species known only from the female. Many species of 
spiders have been found to be common to Florida and 
Texas. 
OECOBIIDAE 
Oecobius texanus sp. nov. 
Fig. 8, a, b, c, d, e 
Female. Length, 2.5 mm. ; ceph., 0.7 mm. ; abd., 1.6 mm. ; 
width of ceph. 0.8 mm. 
Cephalothorax yellowish white with a dark margin and 
median area from eyes to posterior margin shaded with 
dark gray, black about eyes, broader than long, thoracic 
groove long and lightly impressed, clypeus protruding and 
shaded with gray ; eyes closely grouped on a distinct eleva- 
tion which falls away on all sides, anterior row procurved, 
a.m.e. largest of eight, round and dark, separated by more 
than a diameter and almost touching a.l.e. which are half 
