84 _ ARANEIDEA. 
Posterior row of eyes approximately straight ; eyes small, widely separate; centrals at least three diameters 
apart, two from the laterals. Anterior row almost straight; centrals much the largest of the eight and 
prominent, over one diameter apart, less than half a diameter from the laterals: Carapace more or less 
contracted behind the cephalic area, the latter bluffly rounded in front. Abdomen not produced into a 
cylindrical rugulose pedicle in front; the base sometimes scutulate and with two pairs of fine spines. 
Femur of palpus ( 2) with four or five stout spines on the lower margin. Both margins of fang-groove 
with two small teeth. 
1. Myrmecotypus fuliginosus. 7 
Myrmecotypus fuliginosus,O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 124, t. 18. figg. 6, 
6a-d(?)*. 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 7 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
2. Myrmecotypus pilosus. 
Corinnomma pilosum, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 277, t. 38. figg. 3, 
3a-e(3),4,40,56(2)’. 
Type 2, cotype ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, ¢ 9, 5 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith 1). 
3. Myrmecotypus dubius. | 
Corinnomma dubium, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i, p. 277, t. 34. figg. 1, 
la-c (?)'. 
Type, 9, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 8 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith 1). 
SPHECOTYPUS. 
Sphecotypus, O. P.-Cambridge, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 152 (1895). 
Type S. formicarvus, O. P.-Cambr.=S. niger (Perty). N. & S. America. 
1. Sphecotypus niger. | ? 
Myrmecia nigra, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. Bras. p. 199, t. 89. fig. 9 (1833)1; ? Abbot’s Drawings, 
t. 92. fig. 457°; Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 886 (1837) °; C. L. Koch, Die Arachniden, ix. p. 15, 
fig. 701 (1842) “; E. Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. éd. 2, ii. p. 169°; Keyserling, Brazilianische 
Spinnen, p. 80 (1891) °. 
Sphecotypus formicarius, O. P.-Cambr. loc. cit. p. 158, t. 19. figg. 4, 4a-d (2) 7. 
Total length of S. formicarius 26 millim. 
Hab. NortH America, Georgia?—Panama, Bugaba (Champion 7).—Vunuzun.a °; 
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