ARANEIDEA. 
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Meta globosa, sp. n. 
Adult female, length scarcely 13 line. 
The colour of the cephalothorax, falces, legs, palpi, maxilla, labium, and sternum is a dull pale yellow, the 
legs tinged with greenish, and the maxille, labrum, and sternum with brown. 
The eyes are closely grouped together on black spots, and form an area not differing much in the length of its 
longitudinal and transverse diameter—the latter, if anything, being a little the longest ; those of the anterior 
row are very near together, the height of the clypeus being less than the diameter of a fore central eye. 
The legs are long, very slender, 1, 2, 4, 3, furnished with hairs and a few very fine spines. 
The falces are of moderate length and strength, and prominent at their base in front. 
The mawille are less in length than in Argyroepetra, nearly or quite straight (not divergent, or very slightly 
so) and scarcely widened at their extremities. The labium appears to exceed, slightly, half the length of 
the maxille, and the sternum is of a more heart-shape, 7. ¢. the sides are more curved and its form there- 
fore less rigidly triangular. 
The abdomen is rather large, nearly globular, but when looked at sideways the hinder part is more elevated 
and convex than the fore part, and falls vertically to the spinners; it is of a dull yellowish drab-brown 
colour, the sides and upperside covered more or less thickly with silvery spots and small blotches—in 
some examples those on the upperside roughly form some oblique stripes diverging backwards from the 
median line, along which is a tapering stripe free from spots. On each side of the posterior declivity is a 
large conspicuous round silvery blotch, and a strong curved silvery bar across the middle of the underside, 
the convexity of the curve directed forwards; behind this curved bar the surface is tinged with brown. 
The genital aperture is small and inconspicuous, but characteristic in its form. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, Panzos, Senahu (Sarg). 
This pretty and delicate little Spider decidedly approaches, if it be not identical with, 
the typical Meta, though its colours and markings bring it very close to Argyroepeira, 
and especially to A. curta, from which, however, the globular form of the abdomen will 
at once distinguish it. In this character it comes near to Theridion, and, particularly, 
to some species of Argyrodes. 
Meta alboguttata, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly over 2 lines; male, 14 line. 
The cephalothoraw of the female is of a dull yellowish colour marked with dark yellow-brown longitudinal 
stripes on the caput, which converge into a blunt point backwards about the thoracic junction. The 
occipital region is a little gibbose. 
The eyes are tolerably closely grouped together, and on black spots; the interval between those of the hind- 
central pair is a little less than that between each and the hind lateral next to it. The four central eyes 
describe a rectangular figure whose longitudinal is greater than its transverse diameter. The height of 
the clypeus is equal to the diameter of one of the fore central eyes. 
The legs are moderate in length and strength, 1, 2, 4, 3; they are similar to the cephalothorax in colour, and 
marked in front of the femora of the first and second pairs with more or less obscure, broken, longitudinal 
brownish lines: this character, however, is probably not constant. The anterior extremities of the tibie 
and metatarsi of the first two pairs are reddish-brown; they are furnished with hairs and a few fine 
spines, 
The falces are strong, rather long, prominent at their base in front, similar in colour to the cephalothorax, and 
marked with a transverse brownish spot in front, not far from the cephalothorax. 
The mawxille, labium, and sternum are rather suffused with yellowish-brown, less so in some examples than in 
others. The maxille are like those of M. curta and M. globosa, though, if anything, slightly longer. 
The abdomen is short, stout, somewhat globular above and in front, and pointed at the spinners ; its ground- 
colour is dull drab, thickly speckled with small silvery spots on the sides and above—in some examples 
disposed somewhat in curved, transverse, and oblique lines; in some specimens there are traces of broken 
