204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June. shaped about as in cratczgi. Color : pronotum of univitlata cinerous, punctured with blackish, and marked as in our other species with three black points over each eye, and a vertical black line before reaching to the tip of the dorsal horn ; the punctures are fewer and more shallow toward the shoulders, leaving these parts paler; dorsal ridge marked with a broad white line, bordered with brown and extending from the tip of the horn to the apex of the elytra. This dorsal white line is a little nar-rower in godingi, and may become diffuse before the posterior tip through coalesance with a transverse, pale, anteapical band, which is more or less strongly indicated in this species. The anterior black vertical line is usually broken in godingi, and the punctures are concolorous with the surface of the pronotum which is marked as in cratcegi, but usually with the pattern less clearly contrasted. The markings of this latter species are well represented by Emmons in the Nat. Hist, of N. Y. Agriculture vol. v, pi. iii, fig. 2, but he has figured the dorsal horn as longer and more slender than in any specimen I have seen. The male of godingi scarcely differs from that of univittata, the characteristic markings being almost obliterated by dusky mottlings. In cratcegi the markings are as clearly defined as in the female, but the dorsal horn is less elevated, though of about the same form as in the female. This is an interesting addition to our described Membracidae, of which I have taken a number of individuals about Buffalo, mostly on bushes of wild black cherry in June and July. o SOME MISSOURI SPIDERS. By NATHAN BANKS. The following spiders were collected in Missouri by my friend, Mr. Gilbert Van Ingen, in 1890. They were captured mostly near Springfield, in the southwestern part of the State: DRASSID^E. Micaria agilis nov. sp. Length 5 mm. Cephalothorax, mandibles and sternum yellow, or pale yellowish brown ; legs white, base of femur i brown, posterior pairs faintly lineated with brown ; abdomen gray or blackish, with golden scales, distinctly constricted just before the middle, where there is an interrupted band of white scales, often another white band nearer the base ; there are some scales near the tip with a greenish reflection ; p. m. e. nearer to the p. s. e. than to each other. I also have it from Washington, D. C., and Sea Cliff, N. Y. It is readily recognized by its generally pale color. It may have
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