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pale central band, with a procurved oblique dark line and another nearer the central line on each side, 
marking the position of the thoracic strie. 
d. Palpal bulb simple ; apical spine short, dilate at the base, sharply pointed, often with a small prominence 
on the inner side; tibial spur large and conspicuous from above, somewhat involved from below, bilobate 
and not easy to see. 
9. Vulva consisting of a large elongate area, having a long, conspicuous, central carina starting anteriorly 
from a semicircular convexity. The posterior margin is often slightly trilobate, the central lobe being 
more conspicuous. The details, however, vary very much, the posterior margin being simply rounded in 
some cases, not lobate. The anterior convexity has a pair of small round orifices. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua (Sarg), Eastern District !. 
2. Cyrene sanguinea. 
Heraclea sanguinea, Peckh. Occas. Papers Nat. Hist. Soc. Wisc. iii. 1, p. 78 (April 1896) '. 
Var. Heraclea paradoza, Peckh. loc. cit. p. 79”. 
Types, d, in coll. Peckham. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Eastern District } 2. 
No figures or description of the male palpus are given. ‘The spider is said to be 
closely allied to C. regia, but the mere statement that “the palpus, however, is 
different” does not help the student, or tend to advance science. The species 
is probably identical with the male here described as C. pratensis, and another 
synonym might possibly have been avoided by the barest mention of the form of the 
tibial spur. 
3. Cyrene longispina, sp. n. (Tab. XVIII. figg. 14, 14 a-d, 3.) 
Type, ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 7 millim. 
Dried example, g. Colour similar in most respects to that of C. regia. Femora of legs, however, not 
banded. Abdomen dorsally deep purple-brown or black, with a marginal band of white hairs in front, 
this uniting with a broad lateral and marginal band of white hairs, reaching almost to the spinners ; 
a broad central band of white hairs reaching from the anterior marginal band to the spinners. The 
posterior legs are, perhaps, more densely clothed with white hairs than in C. regia. Ventral area black, 
with greyish hairs. 
Palpus very different from that of C. regia: bulb with a long, slender, sinuous, apical spine, its point 
directed outward ; tibial spur long, slender, sinuous, slightly notched below at the apex. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sarg). 
This spider resembles C. regia in general coloration, except that the abdomen is 
not orange-red above, but brown; and the tibial spur of the palpus is of a totally 
different structure, being long and slender. This spur much resembles that of the 
variety of C. pratensis in which the apical fissure is very shallow; but the much more 
slender apical spine and the deeply bilobate basal portion of the bulb of the latter will 
prevent any confusion of the two forms. 
4. Cyrene bilobata, sp.n. (Tab. XVIII. figg. 15, 15 a-d, ¢ .) 
Type, ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 6 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sarg); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
