84 ARANEIDEA. 
are marked with short fine black lines or streaks, running somewhat obliquely. The underside is pale 
luteous, with a curved bar of short fine black lines in front of the spinners. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Synema profuga, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 23 lines. 
The cephalothorax is of ordinary form ; its colour is dull yellow-brown, with somewhat of an olive tinge (probably 
in life the colour is greenish) ; furnished with a few longish black tapering bristles. 
The eyes are on greyish tubercles. Those of the central pair of each row are further from each other (though 
not very much) than each is from the lateral eye of the same row adjacent to it. The four central eyes 
form a trapezoid whose anterior side is distinctly shorter than the posterior, and the sides are very nearly 
equal to the anterior side. The height of the clypeus is nearly equal to half that of the facial space. 
The legs are rather long, moderately strong. The femora, genua, and tibie of the first and second pairs are of 
a deep rich slightly reddish-brown, with a rather distinct dull orange-yellow annulus at the base of the 
tibia ; the metatarsi yellow, appearing somewhat spotted owing to the red-brown bases of the spines ; 
the tarsi yellow, with a distinct black claw-tuft. The femora, genua, and tibie are armed with spines, 
strongest, and some of them of a pale hue, on the tibie. The legs of the two posterior pairs are short 
and yellow. 
The falces are tolerably long, strong, vertical, and similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
The palpi are short, and similar to the two hinder pairs of legs in colour. 
The mawille and labium are normal in form and similar in colour to the falces. Sternum yellow. 
The abdomen is rather large, much broader behind than in front, of the work-bag-shape common in this and 
some allied genera, tolerably convex above, and well rounded both before and behind. It is of a dull 
lnteous colour, more or less marked in parts above and on the sides with cretaceous white, also with black 
and red-brown markings, leaving more or less distinctly defined the usual angulated Thomisid pattern on 
the upperside. The sides, towards the under surface, are marked with black parallel streaks, and on the 
underside is a broad, central, longitudinal, somewhat shield-shaped band. The spinners, which are 
yellow-brown, are encircled with a black stripe; probably much variety exists in different examples in the 
abdominal pattern according to the extent and continuity or otherwise of the darker markings on the 
upperside. The genital aperture is small, but of characteristic pattern. 
Hab. PanaMa, Bugaba (Champion). 
Synzema adjuncta, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 2% lines. 
The cephalothoraa is of a yellow-brown colour, rather darker in the ocular region and on the clypeus. The 
sides and hinder slope of the thorax, which is much impressed, are deep rich reddish-brown. 
The eyes are on greyish tubercles. The central pair of the anterior row are a little further from each other 
than each is from its adjacent lateral eye, while those of the posterior row are equidistant from each other. 
The four central eyes form very nearly a square, the hinder side being slightly longer than the rest. The 
height of the clypeus is nearly equal to half that of the facial space. 
The legs are short, moderately strong, 2,1, 4,3. Those of the first two pairs have the femora, genua, and 
tibie dark yellow-brown, paler in front of the femora, which are also closely, though minutely, granulose. 
The tibi have a pale annulus near the hinder extremity (or base). The metatarsi and tarsi are brownish- 
yellow, paler than the tibia. Spines on the femora, genua, tibia, and metatarsi, but not very strong. 
The two posterior pairs are much the shortest, and their colour is yellow. 
The falces are rather long, moderately strong, vertical, and a little prominent near their base in front; they are 
similar in colour to the clypeus and ocular region. 
The palpi are short, slender, and similar in colour to the posterior legs. 
The maazlle and labiwm are yellow-brown, with a pale marking at the base of each, that on the 1 
an isosceles triangle, the others somewhat oblong. 
The sternum is yellow, indistinctly bordered with yellow-brown. 
abium being 
