ARANEIDEA. 
with a circular white bar on each side, together forming a 
transverse “ parenthesis,” each being often broken up into 
two separate spots. Legs yellow, annulated with brown or 
black. Vuiva very distinct in form, consisting of a pair of 
larger adjacent central circular dark discs, well removed, 
nearly two diameters, from the genital rima, and a smaller 
oval dark spot on each side, its position not always constant, 
connected with the others by a duct sweeping backward in 
a circular lobe, with also another shorter circular connecting 
duct beneath . . .. . oe ‘ . voluta, sp. n. 
2. Abdomen with a broad anterior marginal “band of sulphur- 
yellow scales, followed by a transverse white bar on each 
side ; just behind the middle are two very small central dots, 
and two small, but more conspicuous, white spots, widely 
separate, above the spinners. Vulva consisting of a pair of 
circular adjacent dark discs, one-fourth their diameter 
distant from the genital rima, with a very widely curved 
spiro-circular duct, connected with a central dark spot . . flavida. 
3. Abdomen rich black-brown, with an anterior dorsal curving 
hieroglyphic white band on each side, not connected on the 
front middle line, followed to the spinners by a broad 
central pale band, relieved by a series of five or six brown 
chevrons; lateral area streaked with black anteriorly, but 
white in the posterior half. Vulval area broad, transverse- 
oval, with a large, dark, reniform disc on each side of the 
anterior lateral margin, and a pair of obliquely transverse- 
oval dark discs, posteriorly, about one transverse diameter 
from the genital rima, with a pair of dark black spots in the 
central portion between the reniform discs . . . . . « Orevispina. 
bb. Carapace with a broader or narrower posterior-lateral marginal 
band of white or yellow hairs and scales. 
1. Abdomen brown and white mottled, with a central pale band, 
resolved into five or six pale chevrons, to the spinners, and 
four white spots, set in brown patches, the first pair smaller, 
the second larger and transverse. Legs orange-yellow, with 
dusky annulations. Vulval area transverse-oval, emarginate 
before and behind, divided into a pair of large circular-oval 
adjacent discs, whose outer margin curves inward, forming 
a duct, becoming enlarged towards the centre and ter- 
minating in a large black spot . . . . . . . . . guadriguitata, sp. 0. 
2. Abdomen brown, with a pair of slender parallel anterior 
marginal white lines, followed by a central spot of orange 
hairs, and a pale central band, more or less broken up into 
chevrons, to the spinners. In the posterior half are two 
