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Phidippus rufus Htz. 
Phidippus mystaceus Htz. 
Phidippus borealis Bks. 
Philseus militaris Htz. 
Dendryphantes octavus Htz. 
Icius elegans Htz. 
Icius similis Bks. 
Neon nellii Peck. 
Habrocestum coccatum Htz. 
A.TTID/E. 
Habrocestum decorum Blk. 
Habrocestum borealis Bks. 
Habrocestum cristatum Htz. 
* Ergane borealis Blk. 
Saitis pulex Htz. 
Attus palustris Peck. 
Attus cruciatus Em. 
Zygoballus iridescens Bks. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME LEPIDOPTEROUS 
LARVJE. 
By D. W. Coquillett. 
Nola miniuscula Zell. 
Body light bluish-green or light gray, on each of the segments 
four to eleven is a transverse row of four very large brownish warts, 
which are thinly covered with short whitish hairs, while below the 
lowest of each, and on 1, 2, 3 and 12 segments is a smaller 
greenish or gray wart thinly covered with longer white hairs ; a 
subdorsal wavy black line on anterior part of body, sometimes ex¬ 
tending nearly the entire length of the body; head small, wholly 
contractile in the first segment, light brownish, a black dot on each 
side, spiracles wholly brown ; fourteen legs, none under segment six. 
Length, 12 mm. 
Found one June 9th and three June 11th, 1886, feeding upon a 
Tenthridinid gall on willow ; they feed upon them from the outside. 
Two spun whitish, elongate-ovate, tough cocoons June 12. The date 
of the issuing of the moths was not noted. 
Scepsis wrightii Gt'ole. 
A caterpillar pupated December 14, 1889, and the moth issued 
February 11 of the following year. The chrysalis is pale yellowish, 
marked with a dorsal, lateral and ventral broad black interrupted band 
and a subdorsal row of black dots. Another caterpillar pupated Feb¬ 
ruary j 8, 1890, and the moth issued March 21, of the same year. 
