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much resembles that of £. diademata in its form. In one or two examples, the exterior one on each side 
of the black spots above noted forms the last of a lateral series of four or five conspicuous deep brown 
spots, each margined with white, and the series converging towards the spinners. In the typical example 
these spots are apparently merged in the central band. 
Hab. GuateMata, Chilasco Mts., Coban, Magdalena near Antigua (Sarg). 
Mr. Sarg obtained specimens of this species from flowers. 
Epeira ocellata, sp. n. 
Immature female, length 2 lines. 
Although not adult this spider presents so very marked and characteristic a pattern on the abdomen that I am 
induced to describe it as a distinct species. It is of the ordinary form belonging to the Z. diademata group. 
The whole of the fore part is yellow; the legs annulated, but not very distinctly, with dark yellow-brown, 
the metatarsi and tarsi only tinged with it at their fore extremities. The legs are tolerably strong, but 
not very long, 1, 2, 4, 3. Spines few and inconspicuous. 
Abdomen subtriangular, of a dull drab hue ; from near the fore part on each side two rows of four or five very 
distinctly defined ocellated spots converge towards the spinners ; these spots are oval, black, and encircled 
with a pale yellowish border, outside which a black ground runs through the row; from each of these 
spots a row of others, decreasing gradually in size, runs obliquely downwards over the side of the abdomen, 
those spots also being more or less distinctly ocellated. The large triangular space between the two rows 
on the upperside is occupied by whitish-yellow curved or oblique markings, forming, however, no very 
definite pattern. Spinners short, compact, yellow-brown. 
The eyes are small, subequal, and in the usual three groups; those of the central group form a square whose 
posterior side is shorter than the other three; the eyes of the posterior side are the largest, and are 
separated by less than a diameter’s interval. 
Hab. GvUATEMALA, Cahabon (Sarq). 
Epeira aculifera, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 33 lines. 
This spider belongs to the Z. cornuta, Clk., group. 
The cephalothorax is yellowish-brown, with a rather darker central longitudinal broken line, and a deep brown 
oblique dash on each side along the grooves, where the caput and thorax unite, and it is clothed with 
whitish hairs. 
The eyes are in the usual three groups ; those of the central group are on a prominence, and form a square, whose 
posterior side is slightly shortest, the anterior pair being an eye’s diameter from the lower margin of the 
clypeus, and the posterior pair the largest. 
The falces are dark yellow-brown, moderately powerful, and vertical. 
The legs are short, moderately strong, clothed with grey and other hairs, armed with spines, some black, others 
pale whitish. Their colour is yellow to yellow-brown, irregularly annulated with dark brown; relative 
length 1, 4, 2, 3. 
The palpi are similar to the legs in colour and armature. 
The mawille and labiwm are blackish-brown tipped with whitish, and the sternwm is of the same colour, 
bisected longitudinally by a broad but ill-defined pale band, and clothed with grey hairs. 
The abdomen is of a subtriangular form, rounded in front, obtuse behind, and has the upperside of a greenish- 
white hue, the larger portion being occupied by a broad yellow-brown band which tapers from the 
fore margin to the spinners, and has its sides defined by a sharply dentated black-brown line on each side. 
Within this area is a longitudinal dagger-shaped whitish-yellow marking, double-crossed at the anterior 
extremity. The sides appear to be marked with some irregular oblique brown stripes. The underside 
has its central portion blackish, and marked with four whitish spots forming a square. Spinners normal, 
and of a dark brown hue. The abdomen is clothed with greyish hairs, and has a few prominent dark 
and pale bristles on the upperside. The genital process is characteristic and prominent; from its fore 
