416 ARANEIDEA. 
1. Stridulating-band of mandible granulo-rugulose . . . . . Nerienz, Blackw. 
2. Stridulating-band of mandible granulo-striate. . . . . . Fuorinpa, O. P.-Cambr. 
B. Mandibles, in both sexes, with a longitudinal band of distinct 
separate transverse striz. 
a. Anterior lateral margin of carapace without fovea. Protarsi 
i, and 11. with one or more spines. 
a’. Eye-groups more widely separate. Sternum longer than 
broad. . 2. wwe we ee ee ew +e) he) 6 FRONTINELLA, Zen. NOV. 
b'. Eye-groups more closely situated. Sternum not longer 
than broad . 2. 1. ww ee ee ee 
6. Anterior lateral margin of carapace with a deep fovea. Pro- 
tarsii. and ii. without spines . . . . . . - - - ~~ Batuypnanres, Menge. 
LeprHyPHANTES, Menge. 
STHELOTA. 
Sthelota, E. Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign, 2nd edit. p. 704 (1894). 
Type S. albonotata (Keyserling). Central America. 
This genus belongs, according to Simon, to that group which has the legs less 
spinose than in the allied forms. It is allied to Microneta. A single species is 
recorded as occurring in Central America; and Frontina phenicea, O. P.-Cambr., 
is placed in Sthelota for the present. 
1. Sthelota albonotata. 
Linyphia albonotata, Keyserling, Spinn. Amer., Therid. ii. p. 89, t. 14. figg. 183, 1834 (?)’. 
Type, 2, in coll. E. Simon. Total length 2 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Isthmus of Darien !. 
2. Sthelota pheenicea. 
Frontina phenicea, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p-. 144, t. 17. figg. 1, 
laf (3), 2,20 (9)’. | 
Type ¢, gynetype 9, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, ¢ 2-5, 9 2°75 millim. 
Hab. GuatTEMaLa, Antigua (Stoll 1). 
This species is allied to Microneta. It differs from the type of Sthelota (to judge 
from M. Simon’s diagnosis of the genus) in the relative position of the posterior eyes. 
The male is remarkable for the development of the tibia of the palpus, in which it 
resembles Oreoneta rudis (O. P.-Cambr.) and Hilaira uncata (O. P.-Cambr.). 
NERIENE. 
Neriene, Blackwall, Lond. & Edinb.-Phil. Mag. (8) iii. p. 187 (1838). 
Type WV. marginata, Blackw., = clathrata (Sund.). Europe. 
Mandibles in both sexes with an indistinct cuspulo-striate or rugulose-cuspulate longitudinal band on the 
