90 
Psyche 
[December 
the Mediterranean. As there were no specimens of this 
species in the museum collection, drawings of the Texan 
species were sent to the Paris Museum and M. Berland 
kindly compared them with the two European species. It 
was found to be different from either. 
AGELENIDAE 
Tegenaria simplex sp. nov. 
Fig. 9 
Female. Length, ceph., 2.2 mm.; abd., 3.1 mm. 
Cephalothorax light yellowish brown, cephalic portion 
high, outlined with a broad stripe of dusky gray which con- 
tinues to the posterior margin, lateral margins with a nar- 
row black line and fringed with long dark hairs directed 
forward, thoracic groove long; eyes cover little more than 
middle half of the head, anterior row slightly procurved, 
eyes equidistant, a.m.e. smallest of the eight, separated by 
less than a radius, posterior row little longer than anterior, 
eyes equidistant, p.m.e. largest of the eight, separated by a 
diameter, lateral eyes almost touching and subequal ; quad- 
rangle of median eyes narrower in front and higher than 
wide; clypeus more than a diameter of a.m.e.; mandibles 
vertical, long, front surface flat with many black bristles, 
fang groove oblique, superior margin with scopula of long 
hairs, four distinct teeth, inferior margin with four teeth, 
fang long; labium as high as wide, tip rebordered, lateral 
margins almost parallel and excavate at basal fourth; 
maxillae twice as long as labium with sides parallel ; stern- 
um with broad lateral dark stripes broken by two pairs of 
light spots opposite I and II coxae, as wide as long, sides 
almost parallel between I, II and III coxae, tip continued in 
a slender point between IV coxae; abdomen two-thirds as 
wide as long, pale yellow with the usual grayish marks, tip 
much darker, venter pale with a gray rectangle from fold 
to spinnerets, containing two pale poorly defined parallel 
stripes; spinnerets, superior pair with long basal joint, 
terminal joint about two-thirds as long, inferior pair 
shorter than basal joint of superior; legs long and slender, 
IV pair missing, pale, femora darker with faint gray rings ; 
