BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. 
ZOOLOGIA. 
Class ARACHNIDA. 
Order ARANEIDEA. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES*. 
META, Keyserling. 
Meta brevipes, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 2 lines. 
The cephalothorax, legs, and falces are brownish-yellow ; the legs short, 1, 2, 4, 3, moderately strong, once 
apparently furnished with a few slender spines, which have, however, been mostly rubbed off. 
Eyes on black spots. ‘The interval between those of the hind central pair less than that between each and 
the hind lateral eye next to it. The four centrals form a square whose anterior side is slightly shorter 
than the posterior. Height of clypeus less than the diameter of one of the fore central eyes. 
Falces rather long, strong, and a little prominent at their base in front. 
Mawille not more than half the length of the labium, very slightly divergent, and rounded on the outer side at 
their extremity. They are yellow-brown ; the /abium and sternum darker. 
Abdomen large, short, very much elevated, almost globular above, of a subtriangular form, broad at the fore 
part across the shoulders, and projecting greatly over the thorax. The ground-colour is a rather golden 
yellow-brown, and it is closely spotted with small silvery and silvery-gilt spots, leaving a central longi- 
tudinal line on the upperside, emitting two cr three oblique lines on each side; a somewhat curvilinear 
triangular area on the upperside is of rather darker yellow-brown than the rest, and has on each of its 
two curved sides several marginal blackish spots; the apex of this triangle is just above the spinners, and 
its base, which is defined by the anterior oblique lines, is in front, across the shoulders. On the underside 
is an oblong dark yellow-brown space defined by a silvery-gilt line just between the spinners and the 
genital aperture, which is darkish yellow-brown and inconspicuous, though of characteristic form. 
Hab. Guatemata, Chilasco (Sarg). A single specimen. 
This Spider is very Epeiriform, especially in the shape of the abdomen, which on the 
upperside reminds one strongly of the common British and European Epetra agalena, 
Walck. 
* [In treating of the “ Araneidea ” we propose to pursue a somewhat different course of arrangement from 
that adopted in other portions of this work, where a systematic sequence has been followed in most cases. We 
divide this subject, with the author’s approval, into two parts: the first to contain descriptions of the many 
new species contained in our collections and also the Plates accompanying them ; the second to include a 
systematic arrangement of all the species known to occur within the region under investigation, together with 
what is known of their geographical distribution. As a full explanation of the figures is issued on a separate 
page accompanying each Plate, it is not repeated in this portion of the work.—Epp. | 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Arachn. Aran., July 1889. By 
