378 ARANEIDEA. 
2. Asagena quadrimaculata. (Tab. XXXV. figg. 17, 17@, ¢.) 
Asagena quadrimaculata, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 189, t. 23. figg. 12, 
12 a-e(g); E. Simon, P.Z.8. 1897, p. 8647. 
Type, d, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 3°5 millim. 
Hab. Guaremata, Antigua (Sarg, ex Dr. Stoll !).—VENEZUELA; ANTILLES, St. Vincent ?. 
3. Asagena mesta. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 18, 2.) 
Asagena mesta, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 209, t. 25. figg. 4, 4a-c (9) *. 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 9 millim. 
Hab, Guatemata (Champion 3). 
4. Asagena zonata. 
Teutana zonata, Keyser]. Spinn. Amer., Therid. i. p. 127, t. 6. figg. 80, 89a, 6(¢) *; Banks, Proc. 
Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) i. p. 238°. 
[Nec Teutana zonata, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i, p. 305, t. 35. figg. 7, 
7a,6(8), 8, 8a-c (¢).] 
Type, d, in coll. EK. Simon. Total length 6:1 millim. 
lab. Mexico}, Minatitlan 2. 
I do not know this species, and suspect that it may belong to Asagena. According 
to Keyserling’s figures, the abdomen is cinctured with white, and the bulb of the palpus 
has no small hook near the apex. 
LATRODECTUS. 
Latrodectus, Walckenaer, Tabl. p. 81 (1805). 
Type L. tredecim-guttatus (Rossi). Europe. 
Tarsus iv. with a comb beneath. Colulus present and conspicuous. Males without stridulator on the abdomen. 
One species only of this genus has been recorded from Central America, Z. mactans. 
Another, however, L. gcometricus, is common in Brazil, and I therefore give it a 
place in the Table and on the Plate (Tab. XXXV. figg. 23, ¢; 24, 24a, 2 ). They 
toto) 
may be distinguished as follows :— 
Males and Females. 
a. Eyes of anterior row subequal. Body black, with red spots and 
splashes 2 6 1 1 ee ee ee ee ee we  mactans, Fabr. 
6. Central anterior eyes distinctly larger than the laterals. Body 
entirely dusky black (var.) or grey with dusky spots and lines. [yeometricus, C. L. Koch. ] 
1. Latrodectus mactans. (Tab. XXXV. figg. 19,19 a, ¢; 20,20a4, 2.) 
Araneus mactans, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 2107. 
Latrodectus mactans, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 648°; C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. viii. p- 115, t. 284. 
