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Psyche 
[June-September 
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN 
ANYPH^NIN^] 
IN 
THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 
By Elizabeth B. Bryant 
In a recent revision of the spiders of this sub-family in 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology from North and Cen- 
tral America and the West Indies, it was found that there 
has been much confusion in the use of genera. The genus 
Anyphsena was made by Sundevall in 1833 (Conspectus 
Arachnidum, p. 20) for Aranea accentuata Walckenaer. L. 
Koch (Die Arach . fam. Drassiden, 1866, p. 194) first called 
attention to the position of the ventral furrow, “as either 
in the middle of the length of the abdomen or behind the 
middle.” Nicolet (Say, Hist, de Chili, 1849, 3, p. 450) made 
the genus Gayenna for the South American species where 
the posterior spiracular openings are nearer the spinnerets 
than to the epigastric plate. F. 0. P. Cambridge (Biologia 
Centrali-Americana, 1900, 2, p. 94), definitely restricts the 
genus to “Spiracular rima situated behind the middle of 
the ventral area of the abdomen towards the spinners,” and 
states that the genus is not found in Central America. Mr. 
Banks has used the genus Gayenna when the ventral furrow 
is behind the middle of the entire abdomen. 
The genus Marcellina has been made for Cluhiona pisca- 
toria Hentz, known only from two males from Alabama 
and an immature male from Newton, Massachusetts. The 
large anterior median eyes, the peculiar palpus, and the 
short spines on the legs are very different from any other 
genus. 
Hentz, in his descriptions of Clubiona saltabunda and 
C. albens, questions the generic position. The exaggerated 
