META.—ARGYROEPEIRA. 3 
brownish lines and markings. The underside has a few silvery spots disposed transversely on each side, a 
little way in front of the genital aperture, which is simple but a little prominent, characteristic in form 
and of a red-brown colour. 
The male has the occiput more fulvous than the female, and the three groups of eyes more separated from each 
other. The cephalothorax is tinged with yellow-brown, and the falces and sternum strongly so. 
The palpi are short, pale yellowish; the radial joint is somewhat clavate, and longer than the cubital, and 
furnished in front with several longish curved tapering hairs, the cubital having a single one, and the legs 
a strong straight one. The digital joint is of moderate size at its posterior extremity; it ends with a 
curved, red-brown, sharp, horn-like apophysis, whose point is directed outwards. The palpal organs 
are well developed, not very complex, but with a distinct black tapering spine coiled round their anterior 
extremity, and a strongish, curved, obtusely-ended process on the outer side of the hinder extremity 
close to the point of the digital horn. 
The abdomen is less globose in form, and more thickly mottled with silvery spots above, where also the brown 
lines are more distinct, forming a tolerably regular pattern of a series; transverse parallel or looped 
transverse lines on each side of the median line. 
The falces are also longer than in the female. 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, San Marcos, Tamahu, Panzos, and Sakiyac (Sarg); Panama, Bugaba 
(Champion). 
Meta decolorata, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 3 lines. 
The whole of the fore part is pale yellow, the anterior extremities of the tibia, metatarsi, and tarsi of the legs 
strongly suffused with red-brown. 
Legs moderate in length and strength, 1, 2, 4,3; spines few and slender. 
Mawille rather long, double the length of the labium, straight, not greatly enlarged at the extremities, where 
they are rather rounded on the outer side. Labrum and maxille suffused with brownish. 
Eyes in the ordinary position of the genus. Height of clypeus equal to diameter of an eye of the fore central 
pair. The four central eyes, which are nearly equal in size, form a rectangular figure whose longitudinal 
diameter is distinctly longer than its transverse diameter; and the interval between the eyes of the 
hind central pair is distinctly less than that between each and the hind lateral eye next to it. 
The abdomen is rather large, subglobular. The ground-colour is pale dull drab, pretty closely but not densely 
covered above and on the sides with mostly roundish silvery spots; no pattern is traceable, but near the 
lower part of the sides the spots increase rather in size ; on each side, just behind the genital aperture, 
are also a few similar spots. The genital process is reddish-brown, prominent and conspicuous, the aper- 
ture small and characteristic. 
Hab. Guatemata, between Dolores and Chapallal (Sarg). 
Count Keyserling (who has kindly examined this and other Spiders for me) has 
labelled it a Zilla, but evidently this is an accidental error. As it is, it appears to me 
undoubtedly a Meta, with which all its generic characters exactly agree. 
ARGYROEPEIRA, Emerton. 
Meta, auctt. ad partem. 
Tetragnatha, Bl., ad partem. 
The genus Argyroepeira includes a number of Spiders intermediate between the 
typical Meta and Tetragnatha. ‘he legs are long and slender, 1, 2, 4,3; the first 
two much the longest, and not greatly different in length. The maxille are longer 
than those of Meta, but less in length than those of Tetragnatha, broad at the 
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