236: ARANEIDEA. 
19. Cyrene hieroglyphica, sp. n. (Tab. XIX. figg. 17, 174, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 6 millim. 
Carapace orange, cephalic area and thoracic central band brown. Abdomen yellow, both dorsally and ventrally, 
encircled to the spinners by a narrow marginal black band, with two large black dorsal spots, the first 
horseshoe-shaped, the second consisting of a pair of elongate black blotches uniting with a square black 
spot immediately above the spinners. Ventral area yellow, with a long black spot on each side, in the 
apical half. 
Legs entirely yellow; tibie iii. and iv. without any basal dorsal spine ; patella i. and ii. with a small spine 
on the inner side, 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith). 
20. Cyrene flava, sp.n. (Tab. XIX. figg. 18, 184, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 7 millim. 
Hab. GuateMaAa (Sarg). 
This species may be distinguished amongst others described here by the presence 
in the female sex of a small stout spine on the inner side of patelle i. and ii. The 
tibie iii. and iv. have no small dorsal basal spine. The general colour is yellow, with 
brown cephalic arc and brown lateral bands on the carapace, while the abdomen has a 
central pale band margined with brown accent-like spots. ‘The vulva is very distinct 
in form, being very deeply emarginate posteriorly, with a pair of orifices, about two 
diameters apart, anteriorly. 
21. Cyrene bisignata, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg. 1, 1a, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 5 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (H. H. Smith); Guatemata (Sarq). 
A very small species, recognizable generally by the presence of a small dorsal basal 
spine on tibie iii. and iv. and of a small spine on the inner side of patelle i. and ii., 
characters distinguishing it from C. fusca, C. delecta, and C. aprica, though with the 
last two it has nothing in common, so far as the coloration is concerned. The vulva 
is very distinct and characteristic, see Plate. C. bisignata differs from all the other 
species of the genus in having a central dark thoracic band flanked on each side by a 
pale band, and a submarginal brown and a marginal pale band. 
22, Cyrene mediocava, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg. 2, 2a, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 8-5 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatemara (Sarg). 
In general appearance similar to others of the group which have no rust-red pattern 
on the abdomen. The carapace is margined with a band of white hairs, and has a 
central posterior pale band. The legs are only very slightly annulate, but there is much 
variation in this respect. 
