104 ARANEIDEA. 
The legs are rather short, not very strong, 2, 1, 4, 3, of a dark reddish-brown colour, becoming a little paler 
towards the extremities. The femora of the first and second pairs are covered with minute granulosities 
or tubercles, with a few spines on the upperside ; the other joints appear to be furnished with hairs and 
slender bristles only. A conspicuous slender white line runs along the upperside of the genua, tibie, 
and metatarsi of the third and fourth pairs, and a less conspicuous one on those of the first and second. 
pairs, indeed on the latter it is scarcely traceable. 
The palpi are short, the radial and cubital joints very short, the former the shortest and granular. The radial 
joint has its extremity on the outer side produced into a tapering sharp-pointed apophysis, rather closely 
fitting up to the digital joint, and a strong prominent obtuse one at its extremity underneath. The digital 
joint is of tolerable size, broad-oval, pointed in front. The palpal organs are simple, and encircled by a 
black pointed spine. 
The falces are of moderate length, a little tapering, rather weak, and projecting forwards, similar in colour to 
the legs. 
The maaillw are similar in colour to the cephalothorax, and nearly meet over the long, narrow, sharp-pointed, 
lanceolate labiwm, which with the sternum is of the same colour as the maxille. 
The abdomen is broad-oval, somewhat truncate behind, where it is strongly transversely rugulose, having 
almost a segmentate appearance ; it is of a deep black colour, its upper surface covered somewhat sym- 
metrically with roundish shining black tubercles, and in the central line, about two-thirds of the distance 
towards the spinners, is a conspicuous somewhat diamond-shaped bright reddish-orange spot, followed by 
and partially connected with a small one of the same hue; on the sides near the spinners are two or three 
small linear spots. The underside is dark black-brown, and the spinners are small and compact. 
Hab. GuatTeMata, Chamiquin (Sarg). 
STEPHANOPOIDES, Keyserling. 
Stephanopoides cognata, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly over 3 lines. 
Cephalothorax reddish-yellow-brown, covered with short whitish hairs, and with some faint darker markings 
along the middle, and a distinctly marked broad, deep red-brown band along each side. The height of 
the clypeus is distinctly less than half that of the facial space. 
The eyes are normal in general position and relative size ; those of the fore central pair are nearer together 
than each is to the fore lateral eye on its side. 
The legs are short, strong, 1, 2, 4, 3, furnished with white and other hairs, and strong spines on the tibie and 
metatarsi; of these spines four pairs are situated beneath the tibiz and three pairs beneath the metatarsi 
of the first and second pairs of legs, in a regular longitudinal series ; there are also two pairs beneath the 
metatarsi of the third pair. The legs are of a yellow-brown hue, the anterior half of the tibiz and two 
broad rings on the metatarsi of the first and second pairs being deep reddish-brown. ‘The corresponding 
joints of the third and fourth pairs are somewhat similarly but less conspicuously marked. 
The palpi are brownish-yellow, the radial and digital joints red-brown. 
The falces are powerful, rather long, subconical, and prominent in front towards the base. Their colour is 
deep red-brown, covered with short whitish hairs like the cephalothorax. 
The mawille and labium are yellow-brown, the latter the darkest. 
The sternum is yellow, with a yellow-brown margin, marked with darker brown spots opposite the points of 
insertion of the legs. 
The abdomen is of a somewhat subpentagonal form, broadest behind, subangularly prominent on each side at 
its broadest part. It is of a dull yellow-brown hue—probably whitish-yellow in parts, when alive; on 
the upperside is a large diamond-shaped area of a darker hue beginning some little distance behind the 
anterior extremity and running to the spinners. This area has four black spots with yellowish marginal 
rings forming a quadrangle, broader than long, near the middle, the two anterior spots being the largest. 
There are also many yellowish spots of various sizes, some of the most conspicuous of which are symmetri- 
cally disposed between, and in front of, the quadrangle. Also from this diamond-shaped area two’ oblique 
