120 ARANEIDEA. 
Subfam. HETEROPODINA,. 
Spinners normal, not set upon a basal segment. Apex of protarsi i. and ii. with distinct well-developed 
trilobate membrane. 
The genera of this subfamily represented in Central America may be tabulated 
thus :— 
A. Central anterior eyes smaller than the laterals. Clypeus high, at least 
as high as the diameter of the anterior lateral eyes. 
1. Posterior row of eyes slightly recurved, almost straight. Carapace 
compressed behind . . . . 1... ee ee we ee Hereroropa, Latr. 
2. Posterior row of eyes very strongly recurved. Carapace raised and 
slightly bilobate behind . . . . . . : . . . . Heapriivs, E. Sim. 
B. Central anterior eyes equal to or larger than the tafornls. Clypeus 
very low, not more than one-fourth the diameter of an anterior 
central eye. 
1. Posterior row of eyes distinctly broader than the anterior row . . Sparassus, Walck. 
2. Posterior row of eyes not, or scarcely, broader than the anterior 
row. 
a, Anterior row of eyes (seen from above) almost straight . . . Ramwnes, O.P.-Cambr. 
b. Anterior row of eyes (seen from above) strongly recurved . . Prusias, O. P.-Cambr. 
Norr.—It is probable that Hedillus does not belong to the Heteropodine, but the genus is left provisionally 
where M. Simon has placed it. 
HETEROPODA. 
Heteropoda, Uatreille, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. x. p. 544 (1803). 
Type H. venatorta (Linn.). Tropical America. 
Anterior row of eyes straight or slightly procurved; centrals three-fourths of a diameter apart, one-half 
a diameter from the laterals, whose diameter almost equals twice that of the centrals. Posterior 
row slightly recurved, much wider than the anterior. Central eyes smaller than the laterals, one and 
a half diameters apart, rather less from the laterals. Clypeus higher than the diameter of the anterior 
laterals, Superior margin of fang-groove with two, inferior margin with four teeth. Central quadrangle 
longer than broad, wider behind, anterior eyes slightly smaller than the posterior. 
1. Heteropoda venatoria. (Tab. VIII. figg. 22, 22 a-c, 3; 23, 23a-f/, 2.) 
Aranea venatoria *, Marcgrav, Hist. Nat. Bras. libr. vii. p. 249, fig. (1648) °. . 
, Sloane, Nat. Hist. Jamaica ete. 11. p. 181, t. 235. figg. 1, 2 (1725) *. 
——, Merian, Surin. Ins. p. 18, t. 18 (upper fig.) (1730) °. 
——, Gronovius, Zoophylac. Anim. p. 217 (1768) *. 
——, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 1. 2, p. 1035 (1767) ’. 
* In Hist. Nat. Araign. éd. 2, ii. p. 55, M. Simon gives to this species the name H. regia, Fabr. Fabricius, . 
however, when he fixed the name venatoria upon a figure (8) in Browne’s ‘ Natural History of Jamaica,’ and. 
described a Ctenizid, did not select one of the two spiders to which Linneus applied this name, namely, 
