EPEIRA. 35 
This spider was found in a crevice in a wall between Petet and Chicoyoito, near the 
river; and Mr. Sarg has the following note upon it:—‘‘Cephalothorax brown, a 
mixture of burnt-sienna and purple-madder, covered with fine grey hairs; central 
pair of eyes yellow; legs and palpi burnt-sienna banded with sepia; abdomen like 
the thorax, across the highest ridge more pure burnt-sienna, and behind this wavy 
irregular transverse lines of the same; underneath pale sepia, with two yellow-ochre 
spots between the spinners and the fore extremity.” It was also found at Bugaba, 
Chiriqui, by Mr. Champion. 
_ Epeira hoxea, sp. n. — 
Adult female, length a little over 4 lines. 
Cephalothorax of ordinary form. Sides of caput parallel. Caput rather broad, and the middle of the ocular 
area considerably drawn out or prominent, the hinder part of the area of the central group of eyes 
being rather raised above the rest of the caput. The colour is pale yellow, the fore part of the caput 
strongly suffused with rusty-reddish-brown. A central longitudinal dark red-brown line, with an enlarge- 
ment on each side about the middle of the caput, runs back from the hind central eyes to the thoracic 
indentation, where it is enlarged into a conspicuous angular blotch; there are also some slight brown 
markings along the oblique indentations between the caput and thorax. 
The eyes are small, in the usual three groups; the central group forms a square, whose posterior side is much 
shortest, and its eyes separated by more than a diameter’s interval; those of the anterior side separated 
by nearly twice the diameter of one of its eyes, which are also separated from the lower margin of the 
clypeus by rather more than a diameter. The eyes of each lateral pair are seated on a small tubercle, 
contiguous to each other and parallel to the lower margin of the caput. 
The falces are tolerably long and powerful, of a pale yellow hue, and slightly directed backwards. 
The legs are not very long nor strong, 1, 2, 4, 3, of a pale yellow colour, annulated and marked with rusty- 
reddish-yellow-brown. They appear to have been clothed with hairs and armed with spines, of which, 
however, few remain. 
The palpi are tolerably long, and similar to the legs in colour and markings. 
The mawville and labium are yellow-brown, tipped with pale yellowish. 
The sternum is yellowish, with a strong longitudinal central yellow-brown band, which sends off some short 
spurs on each side to the insertions of the legs. 
The abdomen is large, subtriangular, but rounded both before and behind; at each shoulder is a sharpish 
conical nipple-like prominence, followed on the same side, backwards, by two other similar ones, making 
a lateral row of three on each side; also at the hinder extremity, at the beginning of the posterior declivity, 
are five other prominences of about the same size, four in the form of a diamond and one in the centre, the 
hinder prominence being the smallest. The general colour is whitish-yellow, with a broad, central, 
longitudinal, deeply dentated, reddish-yellow band; the sides are marked indistinctly with whitish and 
reddish-yellow-brown, vertical, narrow stripes, and the underside is indistinctly marked with yellow- 
brown, whitish, and rusty, and has two white blotches, in a transverse line, a little way behind the genital 
process. This process is not very large, of a reddish-yellow-brown colour, and is prolonged backwards by 
a rather strong, transversely rugulose, yellowish epigyne, which enlarges a little near its sharp point, the 
enlargement being dark brownish-red. 
Hab. Panama, Tolé (Champion). 
It is probable that the only example examined had lost colour and pattern by 
preservation; but the number and position of the nipple-like prominences on the 
abdomen, as well as the form of the genital process and epigyne, will easily serve to 
distinguish this spider. 
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