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posterior view of the epigyne (' ornis is Greek for bird, ornithes is the 
plural form). It is, of course, pure coincidence that durdenae, de- 
rived from the name Beatrice Vogel obtained through her marriage, 
has to be discarded in favor of the older ornithes, a name that still 
links the species with Beatrice Vogel, but now through the plural 
form of her maiden name (Vogel is the Dutch and German word 
for bird, ornithes is Greek for birds). 
Distribution. — The number of available specimens has consider- 
ably increased during the years. The distribution (see map, Fig. i) 
now comprises, beside Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Ohio, also North 
Carolina, W. Virginia and Virginia. The species is probably not 
rare, but, in my own experience, is not easily collected because of its 
concealed habitat. Barrow’s Ohio specimens came from “under a log 
in a wooded ravine” (October), Ivies specimens from Pennsylvania 
were collected in July, and so was Vogel’s specimen, which came 
from the same locality in Pennsylvania. No other data, on the habitat 
are available from literature. I have collected a fair series (21? 2cJ ) 
in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the trail to the 
Alum Cave Bluffs. This trail leads off the road from Sugarlands to 
Newfound Gap in northern direction to Mount Le Conte, and is on 
the Tennessee side of the park, though close to the North Carolina 
line. 
At the end of nearly three weeks of fruitless search for this species 
at both sides of the Smoky Mountains Range, we found a few speci- 
mens on what was planned to be our last day in this area. The next 
day we returned to the same spot and added a few more specimens 
to our collection. The species was found to inhabit small cavities and 
crevices in the steep rocky sides of the trail, and also in the dark hol- 
lows under and between the roots of trees. The forest at this height, 
between 1100 and 1300 m, has a heavy undergrowth of Rhododen- 
dron spec, and Dog-hobble (Leucothoe fontanesiana). The spiders 
were very difficult to collect. Even when we knew where to find 
them, many escaped by retreating from the entrances of their little 
caves into dark and impenetrable depths. 
The distribution, as presented in Figure 1, is based on specimens 
examined by myself as well as on data supplied by my colleague and 
friend Dr. William A. Shear. The collecting dates of the various 
samples range from May until October. There is only one other 
mention of the exact circumstances of collecting: William Shear 
collected i? by sweeping tall weeds near Athens in West Virginia, 
a situation that does not agree with the habitat described above 
(which may have been delimited too rigidly). 
