26 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF TURNER’S LAKE 
A NEW SPIDER FROM ISLE-AU-HAUT, MAINE 
Microneta bowditchiae nov. sp. (named for Miss Sally Bowditch, 
the discoverer) Male—2.2 mm long. Cephalothorax yellowish 
brown, lighter on the disk; a narrow, curved, dark line from each 
posterior lateral eye to a small grey area in front of the dorsal 
groove. Lateral eyes contiguous and surrounded narrowly with 
black ; posterior median narrowly ranged with black and the anterior 
median in an oval black spot that extends, in front, half way to the 
lower margin of the slypeus; eyes of posterior row in a straight 
line, equal in size and equidistant, slightly less than the diameter 
of one of them apart; anterior row straight or nearly so; the median 
eyes smaller and closer to each other than to the lateral. Height of 
clypeus about three times the diameter of an anterior median eye. 
Chelicera (Fig. 2) yellowish brown, narrowed distally and with a 
wide excavation on the inner distal third; a large tooth in front on 
the outer edge of the excavation and several inconspicuous ones on 
the inner edge; furrow of the chelicera very short unless the wide 
excavation is to be regarded as an extension of it; a large tooth near 
the base of each claw on the lower margin of the furrow. Abdomen 
above light grey with the apical third much darker; below dark 
except in front of epigastric furrow; legs yellow slightly dusky ; 
sternum large, dusky yellow and prolonged between the hind coxae. 
Palpus: (Fig. 1) The tibia is broadly dilated distally and armed 
with a few fine hairs. The cymbium of the tarsus is angular and 
has a bilobed apex and two knobs near the base (Fig. 3), para- 
cymbium very broad and flat at the base but narrowed and sharply 
angled distally. 
Remarks: Microneta rectangulata Emerton (Tran. Conn. Acad. 
IQ13, 18:217, pl. 2, figs. 5-50) has the chelicera narrowed distally 
and with a small tooth on the front but the shape of the cymbium 
and paracymbium is very different and easily distinguished. Bathy- 
phantes macaria Kmerton (Tran. Conn. Acad. 1882, 6:71, pl. 22, 
fig. 5) has a cymbium that somewhat resembles it but there is no 
mention made of the peculiar excavations of the chelicera or of the 
large tooth in the front. Type locality, Isle-au-Haut, Maine. July, 
1922. Type in the collection of the New York State Museum. 
