MISUMENA.—SYN AMA. 119 
MISUMENA, Simon. 
Misumena ornata, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 4 lines, 
In form this spider resembles very nearly the common European species, M. vatia, Olk. 
The cephalothorax is yellowish-white; the clypeus, the ocular region, and a broad longitudinal band on each 
side are bright pink, and a white V-shaped marking, whose point is directed backwards, is placed just in 
front of the thoracic junction. The height of the clypeus is equal to nearly half that of the facial 
space, 
Hyes in form of a crescent, very small, subequal, the fore-laterals slightly largest; seated on slight tubercles, 
excepting those of the fore-central pair. The four central eyes form very nearly a square; the interval 
between the hind-centrals is rather less than that between each and the hind-lateral on its side. 
The legs are normal, 1, 2, 4, 3; the two anterior pairs are much the longest and strongest, and of a bright 
pink hue, excepting the tarsi and metatarsi, which are yellow-brown; the third and fourth pairs are 
short, and plain yellowish, excepting the coxe, which are pink. The first and second pairs have the 
metatarsi tumid beneath, with nine pairs of short spines in two longitudinal rows; and there are a few 
spines beneath the tibie. The third pair have only a very few spines on the inner side of the fore end 
of the metatarsus, and the fourth pair only one beneath that joint. 
The palpi are yellowish. 
The falces are normal, of a bright pink colour, with the tips and a small spot near them on the outer side 
yellowish-white. 
The maville and labiwm are pink, tipped with yellowish ; the sternum is entirely pink. 
The abdomen is large, much the broadest behind, where it is rounded above and on the sides, and slightly pointed 
at the spinners. It is of a yellow-white colour, having the usual ‘‘ Thomisiform ” pattern on the upper- 
side of a bright pink colour, like the anterior legs and other parts already described; this pattern, no 
doubt, would be found to vary somewhat according to whether the yellowish ground-colour or pink 
prevailed in different specimens, The genital aperture is small but of characteristic form; it is surrounded 
by an irregular pink zone, and from it to the spinners is a straight well-defined pink band or stripe. The 
anterior pair of spinners have a single pink annulus on a whitish ground; and the upperside of the anal 
prominence is also pink, margined with yellowish. An immature specimen has no pink stripe on the 
underside, nor any of this colour on the spinners or anal prominence ; and in this specimen also the 
hinder sides of the femora of the first and second pairs of legs are marked with a yellowish longitudinal 
stripe, and the posterior part of the sternum is yellow. 
Hab. Mexico, Hacienda de la Imagen and Amula, both in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
SYNAIMA, Simon. 
Synezema culta, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 23 lines. 
Cephalothorax very slightly, if at all, longer than broad, of a bright dark red-brown colour, deepest on the 
sides ; smooth, glossy, and furnished with only a very few bristly hairs. 
Eyes on pale yellowish tubercles, small; the fore-laterals rather the largest, and on the strongest tubercles. 
The four central eyes form nearly a square, whose anterior side is a little the shortest. The interval 
between those of the hind-central pair is very nearly, if not quite, equal to that between each and the 
hind-lateral eye next to it. The height of the clypeus is less than half that of the facial space. 
Legs moderate in length, 2,1, 3,4, tolerably strong. The first and second pairs are the longest and 
strongest, and nearly equal in length. The tarsi, metatarsi, and the posterior half of the tibie of these 
two pairs are yellow, the rest being similar in colour to the cephalothorax; the colour of the two 
posterior pairs is entirely yellow; all are armed with rather long but not very strong spines. The palpi 
are yellow. 
The falces are strong, conical, vertical, similar to the cephalothorax in colour, tipped with yellowish. The 
