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Psyche 
[Sept.-Dee. 
SOME NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN SOUTHERN SPIDERS 
By Elizabeth B. Bryant 
Museum of Comparative Zoology 
At the Museum of Comparative Zoology within the last two 
years many spiders have been received from Mr. George Nelson 
that were collected in Alabama and Florida. Among them were 
found the following species that are either new or known only 
from one sex. All are in the museum collection. 
Family Oonopidae 
Genus Philesius Simon 1893 
Philesius vernalis spec. nov. 
Female. Length, 1.6 mm., ceph. 0.4 mm., abd. 1.2 mm. 
Cephalothorax bright brown, moderately convex, slightly 
granulate with a minute hair from each pit, anterior margin 
less than half the greatest width; eyes , a.l.e. largest of the six, 
separated by less than a radius, posterior row about the same 
length as the anterior row, straight, p.m.e. surrounded by black, 
a very broad oval, touching on the long diameter and separated 
from p.l.e. by about a line, p.l.e. smaller than p.m.e.; clypeus 
less than a diameter of a.l.e.; labium triangular, almost as long 
as broad; maxillae inclined over labium, tips almost touching; 
sternum triangular, about two-thirds as wide as long, truncate 
between IV coxae, all coxae globose; abdomen pale, elliptical, 
half as wide as long, four-fifths of dorsum covered by an orange 
colored scutum, punctate, with a minute hair from each pit, 
venter with an orange colored scutum, that covers the basal 
two-thirds, also punctate with a hair from each pit, spinnerets 
closely grouped and not surrounded by a chitinous ring; legs 
paler than cephalothorax, no spines and very few hairs; epi- 
gynum , area swollen but showing no structure. 
Holotype, 9 Florida; Sebastian, March 1944, (Nelson). 
The genus Philesius was based by Simon on a single species 
known from both male and female from St. Vincent. Philesius 
marmoratus the genotype, is much larger than P. vernalis. The 
genus is separated from Gamasomorpha which is widely dis- 
