166 ARANEIDEA. 
P. electa is apparently closely allied to Theridion frondeum, Hentz, from Alabama, 
and perhaps still more closely to 7’. pictipes, Keys., from Florida, but is, I think, quite 
distinct from both. 
Mr. Smith sends the subjoined notes on this spider :—‘* A common species, found in 
leaves, usually of one kind of bush, which have been drawn into a cone-shape and 
securely bound by a thick web of silk at the edges; these cones, generally about three 
inches long, are frequently connected by many long irregular lines to leaves below, 
forming a kind of web. ‘The spiders sit within the cone, and the white egg-cases are 
found loosely attached to the leaf within close to the spider. Deserted cones are fre- 
quently found on the same bush, asif the spider changed its dwelling from time to time.” 
Phyllonethis adjacens, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 12 lines. 
The whole of the fore part (cephalothoraa, legs, palpi, falces, labium, and sternum) yellow ; the cephalothorax 
with a broad central well-defined longitudinal black band throughout, which is slightly constricted near 
the thoracic junction, but scarcely narrower at its posterior than at its anterior extremity. 
The eyes of the hind-central pair are slightly further apart than each is from the hind-lateral eye on its side. 
The four centrals form an exact, or almost exact, square. 
The legs are rather long, slender, 1, 2, 4, 3, furnished with rather coarse hairs, and one or two somewhat 
spine-like bristles. 
The abdomen is white, with a broad central black band extending from the fore margin to one-third of its length. 
This band is well-defined, rather widest and squarely truncate behind ; between it and the hinder extremity 
of the abdomen there are some black spots and short lines, giving an indication of two black dentate or 
zigzag lines, each ending in a black spot close to the spinners. The underside is dusky blackish, with a 
diffused irregular white patch in the middle close behind the genital aperture: this last is small, but 
characteristic in form. 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
P. adjacens is nearly allied to P. electa, but is much smaller, and differs not only in 
markings but slightly in the position of the eyes, and very distinctly in the form of the 
genital aperture. 
Mr. Smith has the following note on this spider:—‘‘ Found in a small, thickish, 
irregularly globular web, supporting a number of dried leaves closely bound together, 
in which the spider was concealed, on the end of a branch six feet above the ground, 
at the edge of the forest. A small purplish egg-case was found in the bunch of 
leaves.” 
THERIDION, Walckenaer. 
Theridion jucundum, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 2 lines. 
Cephalothorax yellow-brown, with a somewhat irregular tapering band of a darker hue extending from the 
eyes to the hinder margin, and some converging lateral lines of the same colour indicating the thoracic 
segments. A few long bristly hairs are disposed on the ocular area and in the median line of the caput. 
Eyes in two transverse curved rows, the convexity of the curves directed forwards; that of the posterior row 
slight, that of the anterior much stronger. The two fore-centrals are seated obliquely on a strongish 
prominence, and form a slightly longer line than the hind-central pair, the four forming a quadrilateral 
