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Psyche 
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brown with dark spots and blotches and irregular cream 
color spots at base; legs brown, femora blotched with 
darker brown, tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi light; spines, one 
spine above on femora I, II and III; I tibia 2-2, meta- 
tarsus 2-2-2, 1 lateral, all paired spines longer than diame- 
ter of joint. No clavate bristles on edge of clypeus, a pair 
of small clavate bristles between median eyes. Quadrangle 
slightly wider in front than behind. 
Palpus. Tibia no longer than patella. Superior apo- 
physis of tibia, slender and reaching to the middle of the 
tarsus; inferior apophysis slender, curving and ending in 
an enlarged hook bent away from the palpus. Palpal organ 
rather simple, superior apophysis with widely separated 
tips and a rounded lobe between, opposite is a sharp black 
cusp; on the lower opposite side is a dark piece curved 
to the contour of the palpus. This corresponds to the 
crescent-shaped piece in 0. modesta. The embolus ends in 
a flattened tip which rests on the superior apophysis. 
$ 4 mm. long. 
Cephalothorax brown with dark stripe each side of 
median light stripe and an irregular dark margin, cream 
color between the eye rows; abdomen brown with dark 
spots and a few cream color stripes; sternum and coxse 
light brown, venter mottled ; legs, brown, I femur mottled ; 
spines, one spine above on femora I, II and III ; I tibia 2-2, 
metatarsus 2-2-2, 1 lateral; all paired spines longer than 
diameter of joint, clavate bristles on clypeus longer than 
distance between A. M. E., pair of clavate bristles between 
M. E. and a clavate bristle below P. L, E. Quadrangle of 
eyes a little wider in front than behind. 
Epigynum. A broad U-shaped depression with two small 
dark dots behind and the usual median lobe at the anterior 
part, much smaller than in 0. conspurcata. 
Type. 1 $, 2 juv. $, N. Y. ; Ithaca, N. Banks Coll. 
1 $ , Can. ; Ottawa bog, 1883, J. H. Emerton Coll., fig. 
as 0. conspurcata, Trans. Com. acad. ; 1894, 9, pi. 4, f. 7c. 
1 $ , N. H. ; Intervale, Aug., 1910, E. B. Bryant Coll. ; 1 $ , 
1 $ , North Woodstock, 4 June, 1908, J. H. Emerton coll., 
1 ? , Jackson, 20 Feb., 1906, J. H. Emerton coll. 
