A REVISION OF THE PISAURIDAE OF THE UNITED STATES 29 
examined from Chatham, Mass.; Onondaga valley, Baldwinsville, 
Pagan Hill, Indian Reservation, Onondaga county, Ithaca, Riders 
Mills, Columbia county, N. Y.; St Croix Falls, Wis.; Anacostia, 
D. C.; also reported from Alabama. 
Pisaurina brevipes (Emerton) 
Tran. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., 1911, 16:400, pl. 4, figs. 6, 6a 
Type: Pisaura brevipes Emerton; type specimen in collection of 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
Type locality: Mount Tom, Mass., South Framingham, Mass. 
Female (alcohol): length iI1mm; legs, 4-(1-2)-3; 18-16-16-14.5mm; 
Dine ji es 27) ples) 11a) 5) 
Cephalothorax above with a broad, dark reddish brown median 
stripe extending from the clypeus to posterior margin of thorax; on 
each side of this a whitish or yellowish brown band, narrowing to 
a point at the sides of the clypeus but rapidly widening to one-half 
the width of the median band; sides below light band, dark reddish 
brown. Light stripes in integument clothed with white hairs, dark 
bands with mixed white and brown hairs. Eyes of anterior row 
in a slightly procurved line, equal in size and equidistant, separated 
by less than the diameter of one of them; posterior median a little 
larger than anterior median; median ocular area as broad or a little 
broader posteriorly, than long. Height of clypeus less than one-half 
that of median ocular area. Chelicera light brown clothed with long 
and short, white and yellowish hairs; lower margin of the furrow, 
armed with three evenly spaced teeth. Abdomen above with a median 
stripe continuing that of the cephalothorax and anteriorly of the 
same color; posteriorly deep brown (in some, almost black) and 
slightly tapering; sides of median band with fewer undulations than 
is the case in P. mira; on each side of median band a line of 
dense, white hairs below which the integument, light yellow brown, 
is covered sparsely with white hairs; sides and venter brown with 
a covering of fine yellowish or white hairs. Legs fourth longest, 
first and second about equal, third shortest ; uniform reddish brown 
except coxae beneath which are spotted with black. Sternum dark 
brown with lighter median stripe. Labium light brown at base, paler 
distally; endites light brown, pale on side bordering labium. 
Epigynum a little shorter and rounder than in Pisaurina 
mira. 
Male: The male has not been described. 
