Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . d in the WestIndies. These are as follows:— Thomisus {Xysticus) jyallens Blackwell. Oonops Bermudensis Banks, op. cit., p. 269, fig. 1, 1902. Fig. 209. Lycosa Atlantica Marx, type from Bermuda. It may be thesame as L. fusca Keys., from Cuba (t. Banks). Fig. 220. A darkbrown or almost black Wolf-spider. Dr. Fr. Dahl (Plankton Exped., i, pt. 1, p. 110, 1892) recordedundetermined species of Cluhioia and Trochosa. Notes on Colors of the /Spiders. The following notes were made on the size and colors of a partof the spideis, after they h
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . d in the WestIndies. These are as follows:— Thomisus {Xysticus) jyallens Blackwell. Oonops Bermudensis Banks, op. cit., p. 269, fig. 1, 1902. Fig. 209. Lycosa Atlantica Marx, type from Bermuda. It may be thesame as L. fusca Keys., from Cuba (t. Banks). Fig. 220. A darkbrown or almost black Wolf-spider. Dr. Fr. Dahl (Plankton Exped., i, pt. 1, p. 110, 1892) recordedundetermined species of Cluhioia and Trochosa. Notes on Colors of the /Spiders. The following notes were made on the size and colors of a partof the spideis, after they had been preserved for a short time in for-malin solution ; apparently the colors had not much changed, butthe size of the abdomen was often considerably diminished byhardening and shrinking. JFYlistata hiberncdis Hentz ; Large Brown Spider. Figures 210, 211. Cephalothorax of a female, orange-brown or rufous, a black patchbetween the eyes; legs of the same color, Avith naiTow bands of whiteat the joints beneath, and becoming blackish at tips, partly covered. Figure 310.—Filistata hibemalis Hentz ; male ; slightly enlarged. Phot, by A. H. V. with scattered black hairs ; falcers small, dark brown, with blackhairs, the terminal piece black ; abdomen plain pale buff with blackhairs, not crowded ; palpi stout and short, deep orange-brown, likethe legs, black distally. Length of body of female, about .75 inch (18 to 20™°*). Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XI. 53 Dec, 1902. 834 A. M Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. The male (see fig. 210) has much longer and more slender legs andpalpi, and smaller body. Color lighter yellowish brown, with blackhairs. Lives in outbuildings, making a large, dense web, with adeep funnel-shaped den behind timbers and in other similar places. Scytodes longipes Lucas ; Long-legged Spider. Although the bod}^ is small (about 9-10 long), the legs are verylong, the anterior ones being about 65 to 70™^ or about incheslong. In an adult male they are orange-bro
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