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Synonymy 
Fisaura brevipes Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., 1911, 
16:400, pl. 4, figs. 6, 6a. 
Pisaura brevipes, Barrows, Ohio Jour. Sci. 1918, 18:313 
Pisaura brevipes Emerton, Trans. Royal Can. Inst., 1919, 12:327 
Remarks. I have transferred this species from the genus Pisaura 
because the eyes, epigynum and clypeus resemble Pisaurina 
mira, the type of the genus. In Simon’s definition of the genus 
Pisaura, it is pointed out that the height of the clypeus equals or ex- 
ceeds that of the median ocular area, that the posterior median eyes 
are one-third larger than the anterior eyes and that the posterior eyes 
are equal in size. In a specimen of this species kindly loaned me 
by Mr J. H. Emerton, I find the height of the clypeus less than 
one-half the height of the median ocular area, the posterior median 
eyes only a little larger than the anterior median, characters which 
are also found in Pisaurina mira. Furthermore the suture 
of the lorum of the pedicle resembles closely that of Pisaurina. 
In general this species is a little smaller than P. mira _ with 
strongly contrasting colors and legs proportionally shorter and 
stouter. Nothing has been published concerning its habits. 
Known distribution. Mount Tom, *South Framingham, Mass. ; 
Vineland, Ont., Canada; Sugar Grove, *Ashtabula, Ohio; *Wash- 
tenaw county, Mich. 
DOLOMEDES Latreille 
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., 1804, 24:135 
The genus Dolomedes was established by Latreille without direct 
indication of the species which he considered belonged in it. He did, 
however, indicate that it was equivalent to the ‘‘ Coureuses”’ of 
Walckenaer. The only paper of Walckenaer to which he could have 
referred was the “ Faune Parisienne’ 1802, in which (v. 2, p. 235 
under, “fam. 14, coureuses’) he includes two species, Aranea. 
mirabilis and Aranea marginata. It has been clearly 
established by T. Thorell* and others that D. marginatus 1s 
thesameas D. fimbriatus. Thisleaves only D. mira- 
bilis and D. fimbriatus_ to be considered in determining 
the type of the genus. 
In 1805, Walckenaer” adopted the genus Dolomedes and placed in 
it four species which he divided into two “ families,” the Ripurariae 
and the Sylvariae. In the first he placed D. marginatus De 
1 Recensio Critica Aran. Suecic., 1856, p. 66. 
Remarks on Synonyms of European Spiders, 1872, pp. 346-349. 
2 Tableau des Araneides, 1805, pp. 16-17. 
