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ARANEIDEA. 
The palpi are moderately long, yellow, and furnished with hairs, bristles, and fine spines. 
The mawille are strong and yellow, tipped with whitish. 
The labiwm is broad, short, like the maxille in colour, and with an angular apex. 
The sternum is yellow. 
The abdomen is large, of a subtriangular form, with three subconical protuberances in the longitudinal median 
line of the hinder part—the largest at the extremity, where the hinder declivity to the spinners begins, 
and another very small one both above and below it. This declivity, with a portion of the sides, is 
blackish freckled with round whitish points; the rest of the abdomen, excepting a blackish transverse 
patch at the fore margin, is whitish-yellow. The upperside of the abdomen is clothed not only with 
hairs but with many claviform spines, blackish at their lower and middle portions, which are gouty or 
enlarged, white at their sharp fine extremities; these characteristic spines are chiefly at the fore and 
hinder extremities, though perhaps they may have been accidentally rubbed off from the other parts. 
The underside is marked with a large, somewhat triangular area bearing on its middle a yellowish oval 
marking drawn out behind into a fine point. The spinners are short, compact, yellow, the front of the 
inferior pair black. In one example the upperside of the abdomen has, in the median longitudinal line of 
the fore half, two distinct blackish markings—the anterior one diamond-shaped, the posterior one oval and 
margined with a whitish line. Probably there would be much variation in the markings of a series of 
this species. The genital process is characteristic and vertically prominent, with the obtusely-pointed 
epigyne projecting forwards from its extremity. ; 
Hab. Guatemaa, Cubilguitz in Vera Paz (Sarg). 
Mr. Sarg found this spider on bushes. 
Epeira hypocrita, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 33 lines. 
Cephalothorax oval; thorax nearly circular; caput well produced in the middle of the ocular area, the sides 
converging forwards. Of a yellowish-brown colour, clothed with whitish hairs and pubescence and marked 
with dark brown spots, lines, and markings, mostly following the direction of the normal grooves and 
indentations ; four spots form a square near the middle of the thorax. 
The eyes are of tolerable size, and are in the usual three groups; the central group is seated on a strong pro- 
minence, and forms a square whose posterior side is shortest; the anterior eyes are larger than the 
posterior, and separated from the lower margin of the clypeus by much less than an eye’s diameter. The 
laterals are seated on a strong tubercle, nearly contiguous to each other, and parallel to the lower lateral 
margin of the caput. 
The falces are moderately long, weak, and vertical ; their profile line, both from in front and from the sides, 
The 
is hollow; they are of a yellowish colour, with a large proportion in front, at their base, and on the sides 
dark brown. 
legs are rather long, strong, 1, 2,4, 3; their colour is brownish-yellow, annulated and marked with dark 
yellow-brown ; they are clothed with grey and other hairs, and armed with numerous spines, chiefly on 
the tibize and femora—those on the latter joints are mostly of a pale whitish hue, and some also of the 
rest are more or less white ; at the outer side of the anterior extremity of the exinguinal joint of the first 
pair is a prominent blunt spine or corneous process, and also a single small, short, sharp, curved spine at 
the fore extremity of the coxee of the fourth pair. 
The palpi are short, yellowish marked with brown ; the cubital joint is angularly prominent in front, where 
it has a long, strong, sinuously curved, tapering, reddish bristle; the radial joint is obtusely produced on 
its outer side, where it is furnished with a tuft of longish white bristly hairs. The palpal bulb is not large, 
but the palpal organs are very highly developed, prominent, and complex, with corneous processes and 
spines; an enormous curved process, bifid at its extremity, issues from near their hinder extremity, and 
is directed prominently outwards and forwards. 
The mawille and labium are dark yellow-brown, tipped with pale yellowish. The sternum is dark yellow-brown, 
with seven marginal yellow spots—three on each side and one at the posterior extremity. 
The abdomen is subtriangular, with a conical prominence at each of the shoulders or anterior angles, and three 
