ARANEIDEA. 
aa. Patelle i. and ii. without short spines either on the inner or the 
outer side. 
a’, Legs unicolorous red-brown. (Abdomen rust-red above, with 
an anterior marginal white band, dilate behind and directed 
upward; followed by an elongate transverse white spot ; 
with two central longitudinal dorsal white spots, margined 
with black; posterior spinners black; sides of abdomen 
black, ventral area pale, or white. Legs and palpi entirely 
brown, except the coxe, trochanters, and patelle.) . . . dybowskii, Tacz. 
b’. Legs more or less annulated with yellow and brown. 
* Carapace with a central posterior band of white hairs. 
Femora i. and i. not dark at the base. Vulva short, 
broad, semicircular or rounded, quadrate, emarginate in the 
middle of the posterior margin, each side sloping upward to 
form a central ridge, with dark central blotches under the 
' epidermis, and a dark orifice at each anterior angle. . . emarginata, sp. n. 
** Carapace without a band of white hairs, but with a pale 
yellow central posterior band; a few obliquely curved 
lateral bars of white hairs only present. Femora i. and ii. 
dark at the base. Vulva very long, usually sinuously 
prominent on the posterior margin, with a central ridge 
or carina, and an anterior marginal convexity with a dark 
orifice on each side . . . . soe ee ew ew ee regia, Peckh. 
66. Patelle i. and 11. with a short spine on the i inner side. 
1. Abdomen rust-red, with a central black longitudinal band; on 
it lies a central white arrow-head, followed by a transverse 
oval white spot, centred with red, behind which to the spinners 
is a band of rust-red, with two or three small white spots on 
each side; sides white, speckled with brown; ventral area 
white. Legs entirely yellow. . . . . . - « pratensis, Peckh. 
2. Abdomen clothed with golden hairs, with a white anterior 
marginal band, a transverse white band at the middle, 
followed by two indistinct pale curved transverse bars and 
three snowy-white spots in a transverserow. . . . . , niveoguttata. 
8. Abdomen yellow, with a pale central band . . . . flava, sp. n. 
ii. Abdomen not clothed with orange-rust-red hairs on the dorsal 
surface, simply grey or mottled brown, usually without any pale 
anterior band, but with a pair of more or less distinct pale spots 
on each side in the apical half, and a more or less well-defined 
pale central dorsal scalloped band. 
* Carapace with a marginal or submarginal band of white 
hairs. 
a. Vulva without any large concavity on either the anterior or 
posterior margin. 
