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ARANEIDEA. 
irregular spots (of which the two posterior are the largest and best defined), forming a large square just 
behind the genital process, which is small but prominent and of characteristic shape. 
Hab. Mrxico, Venta de Zopilote, at an altitude of 2800 feet (H. H. Smith). 
This spider is of the E. sollers, Walck., group. 
Epeira minax, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 7-9 lines. 
This spider is of normal form, and is allied to LZ. purpurascens, Cambr. (anted, p. 33, Tab. VII. figg. 4, 5), but 
is larger and differs in colours and markings. 
The cephalothorax is of a bright reddish hue, a little suffused with brownish on the sides, and clothed pretty 
thickly with long, coarse, pale grey hairs. 
The eyes are small, subequal ; the four centrals are seated on a prominence and form a small quadrangle whose 
posterior side is the shortest and its anterior slightly the longest. The interval between those of the fore- 
central pair (which are the largest) is equal to rather more than two diameters ; that between those of the 
hind-central pair is less than two diameters. Those of each lateral pair are on a tubercle at a considerable 
distance from the four central eyes, very small, placed obliquely and contiguous to each other. The 
clypeus is very retreating ; its vertical height is less than half that of the facial space. 
The legs are long, strong, 1, 2, 4,3; the femora are of a dark black-brown colour; the genual and tibial 
joints are bright reddish, the latter deepening in hue at their anterior extremities, the metatarsi and tarsi 
being of a dull yellowish hue deepening to brown at the fore extremities. They are clothed pretty thickly 
with long pale grey hairs and armed with (mostly) pale spines. 
The maaille and labium are black-brown, tipped with whitish. 
The sternum is subtriangular, of a reddish hue, suffused in the middle with brown. 
The 
abdomen is large, oval (in the only examples seen this part has shrunk a good deal, but its general 
form appears to be that of the common European species, H. diademata, Clk.). It is of a black-brown hue, 
thinly covered with long, prominent, pale grey, bristly hairs. On its upperside is a large, central, some- 
what dagger-shaped, yellowish-white, longitudinal marking, pointed at each extremity but sharpest 
behind ; and on each side is a long, bold, longitudinal stripe of the same colour. In the middle of the 
underside is a large, black, shield-shaped area margined with dull orange-yellow. The genital process is 
of a boldly rugose form, and has connected with it a long, tapering, sharp-pointed strong epigyne, which, 
issuing from in front, bends backwards over the aperture and runs parallel with the under surface of the 
abdomen, reaching nearly, if not quite, to the spinners. Some considerable variety would probably be 
found in a series of this spider in respect to the markings on the abdomen: in one of the examples 
examined there is only a comparatively small, elongate, sharp-pointed, oval, longitudinal marking on 
the middle of the upperside, the lateral markings being represented by a few small spots. 
Hab. Mexico, Acaguizotla in Guerrero 3500 feet (7. H. Smith). 
CYCLOSA, Menge. 
Cyclosa culta, sp. n. 
Adult male, rather more than 13 lines. 
The 
The 
cephalothorax is of normal form, the caput drawn out in front at the ocular region. Its colour is bright 
orange-yellow, with a blackish longitudinal line at the junction of the caput and thorax, whence some 
diverging dusky lines, marking the obsolete segments of the thorax, run towards the margins on each 
side. 
eyes are small, subequal, and placed in the usual four pairs at the extremity of the rather produced caput. 
The two central pairs form a quadrangle whose greatest breadth is rather less than its length and its 
posterior side the shortest. The eyes of the fore-central pair are separated by an interval of nearly two 
diameters from each other, and seated on strongish tubercles; those of the hind-central pair are less 
than a diameter apart, and with those of the two lateral pairs form an almost straight transverse line. 
Those of each lateral pair are nearly contiguous, and seated obliquely on a small tubercle. 
