80 . ARANEIDEA. 
those of the second; the third and fourth pairs are much shorter than the others, of a pale yellow colour, 
but armed like those of the first and second pairs. 
The falces are moderate in length and strength, conical, vertical, similar in colour to the cephalothorax, and 
furnished with some strongish prominent bristles near their base in front. 
The palpi are short, similar to the legs of the first two pairs in colour. The radial and cubital joints are short, 
the latter rather the longest ; the former has the outer extremity produced into a tapering, sinuous, sharp- 
pointed apophysis as long as the joint itself; these joints are furnished with long, strong, curved, black, 
tapering bristles of different lengths. The digital joint is large, broad-oval, rather pinched-in at the 
point, and furnished with long hairs and bristles ; near the base on the outer side is a small prominence 
terminating with a small, curved, pale, sharp-pointed spine nearly in contact with the point of the radial 
apophysis. The palpal organs are simple, not very prominent, and encircled with a strongish black spine. 
The mawille, labium, and sternum are of normal form, and of a pale yellow colour. 
The abdomen is oval, roundly truncated before, and obtusely pointed ; the upper surface is rather flat and of a 
dull brownish-yellow colour; the sides of the fore half are marked with large irregular deep blackish 
chocolate-brown markings, the hinder half with a series of transverse bars of a similar colour, diminishing 
in length as they approach the spinners, and the whole surface furnished thinly with some long, strong, 
tapering, slightly curved, black bristles directed backwards; the outer edge of the upper pattern has a 
few whitish spots on it, but the sides are slightly rugulose and of a pale whitish-yellow hue; the underside 
has a broad, central, longitudinal, darkish orange-brown band, narrowest at the spinners, and occupying 
nearly its whole area. The spinners are short, compact, and of a brownish colour outside. 
Hab. Guatemata, Magdalena near Antigua (Sarg). 
A fine and very distinct species. 
Synema puta, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly less than 2 lines. 
The cephalothoraa is normal in form, of a dull orange-yellow colour, with an indistinct paler angular or some- 
what arrow-head-shaped marking behind the caput, the point directed backwards; a few black bristles 
are disposed on various parts of the surface, and the height of the clypeus is rather less than half that of 
the facial space. 
Tho eyes are normal in their general position and relative size. The central trapezoid is a little longer than 
broad, the anterior side being rather the shortest. The eyes of the hind central pair are slightly smaller 
than the fore centrals, and are distinctly but not greatly nearer together than to the hind laterals, and 
those of the fore central pair are very slightly further from each other than from the fore laterals. 
The falces are short, strong, subconical, vertical, and similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
The leys, 2,1, 4, 3; very little difference in length between those of the first and second pairs—if any, the 
second appear to be the longest; these pairs are similar to the cephalothorax in colour, the anterior 
portion of the tibie suffused with a deeper hue; the metatarsi and tarsi, together with the legs of the 
third and fourth pairs, are pale yellow. The spines are strongest and most numerous on the tibie and 
metatarsi. 
The palpi are short, pale yellow, and furnished with a few bristles. 
The mawille, labium, and sternum are of normal form and of a yellow colour, not quite so pale as the posterior 
legs. 
The abdomen is short, tolerably convex above, much the broadest behind, subpentagonal in form, of a uniform 
deep chocolate colour, marked indistinctly with pale reddish-yellow points and markings, and clothed 
thinly with hairs and slender bristles. The genital aperture is very small and inconspicuous, but charac- 
teristic in form. Spinners short, yellowish, marked with brown on their outer sides. 
Hab. Guaremata, Tikal (Sarg). 
