EPEIROTYPUS.—LINYPHIIN &. 415 
from the latter in having relatively much shorter legs and the eyes more closely grouped, while the 
central posteriors are much larger than the laterals and much further apart than they are from the 
laterals. The colulus is present, and the posterior pairs of spinners are situated in the same transverse 
straight line. 
1. Epeirotypus brevipes. 
Epeirotypus brevipes, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 134, t. 18. figg. 11, 
ll a—d (¢)?*; loc. cit. p. 161, t. 19. figg. 14, 14a-e (¢)”*. 
Type 2, androtype ¢, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, 2 3:5, ¢ 2°75 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith*); Guaremaza, Senahu (Sarg’). 
WENDILGARDA. 
Wendilgarda, Keyserling, Spinn. Amer. ii. p. 129 (1886). 
Type W. meaicana, Keyserl. Mexico. 
The type-species of this genus is much larger than the typical Theridiosoma, and differs from it in having the 
legs considerably longer and the eyes more widely separated. The central quadrangle is scarcely longer 
than broad; the central posterior eyes are much closer together, one diameter apart, than to the laterals, 
two diameters from the latter and almost equal to them in size. The sternum is broadly convex between 
coxe iv. The colulus is present, and the central and posterior pairs of spinners are in one and the same 
straight transverse line. The abdomen is globular. 
1. Wendilgarda mexicana. 
Wendilgarda mexicana, Keyser). Spinn, Amer. ii. p. 130, t. 15. figg. 208, 208 a-c (¢)’. 
Type, 2, in Mus. Brit. Total length 4-4 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé'); Guaremata (Sarg). 
Subfam. LJINY PHIINE. 
Since I am unable at present to find that any of the characters usually given for 
distinguishing the Linyphia-group from that including Hrigone, Walckenaeria, &c. are 
reliable, the spiders comprised in these groups are left under the subfamily Linyrhiine, 
distinguished from the other subfamilies of the Argyopide by the possession in both 
sexes of a more or less distinct organ of stridulation on the mandible. 
The recognizable genera of the Linyphia-group may be distinguished hy the 
characters noted below; those belonging to the Erigone-group I am unable to define 
without making a fuller study of all the numerous and very minute forms involved. 
GENERA. 
I, Legs without lateral spines ; with only a few spiniform hairs above. SrHeExora, Simon. 
II. Legs with lateral spines, as well as those above. 
A. Mandibles, in both sexes, with an indistinct granulo-rugulose, 
or granulo-striate, longitudinal band on the outer side; not 
simply striate. Central posterior eyes seated upon black 
tubercles and much larger than the centrals. 
