150 ARANEIDEA. 
2. Dorsal area of abdomen with a pair of blotches situated 
transversely at the middle immediately behind a pair of 
paie spots ss es 2 
B. Vulva without deep central fovea, but with a transverse variously 
curved chitinous plate, followed posteriorly by a pair of duct- 
orifices and a pair of spermathecal discs. 
a. Spermathecal discs elongate, kidney-shaped, transversely 
situated; chitinous plate slightly sinuous on its posterior 
margin, duct-orifices immediately behind this margin. 
Abdomen brown, more or less mottled, with a pair of 
transversely situated shining white oval spots at the 
middle of the dorsal] area . rr er 
b. Spermathecal discs circular, smaller in proportion ; chitinous 
plate deeply emarginate in the middle, in the form of 
a horseshoe. Abdomen with a large black-brown apical 
transverse blotch, extending laterally and branching to 
the spinners; dorsal area yellow, with three transverse 
rows of small black spots. . . . . © «© « 
Males. 
A. Bulb compressed, circular, encircled round its external margin 
by a long slender filiform spine, its point terminating about 
the middle of the outer side. 
j. Abdomen entirely brown or black, mottled in black and pale 
blotches, or almost entirely pale, but without two conspicuous 
white spots. 
a. Tibial spur long, slender, curved, its apex directed forwards . 
b. Tibial spur shorter, straight, truncate at the apex. Base of 
the tarsus of the palpus with a broad semitransparent 
process on the outer side crossing in front of the tibial 
spur we ee ee ee we ee ee 
ii. Abdomen brown, with a pair of shining white dots, situated 
transversely about the middle of the central dorsal line. Base 
of tarsus of palpus with a sharp spiniform process on the 
outer side crossing in front of the tibial spurs . 
B. Bulb compressed, circular, but the spine stouter and more 
flattened. 
a. Spine very stout and flat, terminating at the apex of the bulb 
in a broad bifid tip. Abdomen pale, with three rows of 
four larger black spots and a transverse bar near the 
spinners . 2 6 6 6 we et te we ew ew ew en 
b. Spine stout, flat, sinuous and somewhat spiraloid, encirclin 
only the central area of.the bulb, terminating about the 
middle of the outer side in a stout blunt point . 
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dS. 
Var. adjunctum, O. P.-Cambr. 
bimaculatum, O. P.-Cambr. 
maculosum. 
affinitatum. 
madidum, O. P.-Cambr. 
bimaculatum. 
maculosum, O. P.-Cambr. 
socium, O. P.-Cambr. 
