PEDO.—EPEIRA. 2438 
an indistinct, whitish, slightly oblique or nearly vertical stripe issuing on each side from the central band, 
formed by white hairs, as well as another somewhat similar at the anterior margin. The spinners are 
short and compact ; just in front of them is the colulus, of small size and subconical form, and close in 
front of it is a very distinct transverse opening, leading doubtless to a spiracular organ; a similar 
opening exists also in Pedo ornatus, but is not so conspicuous. The genital aperture is characteristic, 
though much concealed by hairs. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
PIRATA, Sundevall. 
Pirata felix, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly over 14 lines. 
General form and structure normal. Colour of the cephalothorax yellow, slightly tinged with orange; a broad 
yellow-brown longitudinal band runs on each side of the median line, leaving the central yellow band 
tapering to the thoracic junction, and thence with parallel sides to the hinder extremity ; on the fore-half 
of this central band is an elongate, dark yellow-brown, V-shaped marking, whose fine point joins in with 
the thoracic indentation. The lateral margins are irregularly marked with dark brown. 
The eyes of the second (or middle row) are much the largest of the eight, and with those of the hinder row 
form a square whose posterior side is longest. The anterior row is slightly shorter than the middle one 
and the convexity of its slight curve is directed forwards ; its two central eyes are largest. 
The legs are moderate in length and strength, 4, 1, 2, 3; similar in colour to the cephalothorax, with distinct 
but pale yellow-brown annuli on all excepting the tarsal joints. Spines long and rather strong. 
Falces pale yellow-brown. 
Palpi similar to the legs in colour, indistinctly annulose. 
Mawxille and labium tinged with brown. 
Sternum yellow. 
Abdomen black-brown, with a narrow, pale greenish-yellow-brown longitudinal] central stripe on the fore-half, 
edged by a black line, and with a sharp point at its hinder end; following this, to the spinners, are four or 
five transverse, slightly angular, yellow lines or chevrons, the two anterior ones much the longest ; also on 
either side of the fore-extremity is a somewhat irregular oblique yellow longitudinal line. The underside 
is yellow, and the genital aperture small but of characteristic form. 
A very small but distinct species. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (fH. H. Smith). 
EPEIRA, Walckenaer. 
Epeira scutigera, sp. n. 
Adult female, length from slightly over 2 to rather more than 2} lines. 
Cephalothoraa of ordinary form ; pale yellow-brown in colour, clothed with grey hairs and with darker brown 
lateral converging markings, and a central longitudinal quadrate one on the caput, continued backwards 
in a line through the thoracic junction and forwards in two short lines to the hind-central eyes. 
Legs rather short, 1, 2, 4, 3, like the cephalothorax in colour, and more or less distinctly annulated with 
brown ; spines short, numerous, but not very strong. 
Eyes of central quadrangle forming very nearly a square, whose posterior side is slightly the shortest ; hind- 
central eyes largest, and separated from each other by rather more than a diameter, and by about the 
same interval from the fore-central eyes. 
Falces tolerably strong, pale brownish-yellow, marked in front with an oblique brown stripe. 
Palpi short, similar to the legs in colour and markings. 
Mawille yellow-brown, broadly margined at the extremity and on the inner side with brownish-yellow. 
Labium brownish-yellow, with a pale yellowish apex. 
Sternum brownish-yellow, its margins broadly clouded with brown. 
Abdomen heart-shaped, or somewhat triangular, with the anterior margin strongly rounded; the posterior 
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