446 ARANEIDEA. 
5. Pseudometa alboguttata. (Tab. XLII. figg. 21, 21a, @.) 
Meta alboguttata, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. 1. p. 2, t. 1. figg. 1, la-d( 2), 
2,2a,b(2)”. 
Argyroepeira alboguttata, Keyser]. Spinn. Amer., Epeiride, p. 316, t. 16. figg. 233, 233 a-d (9)’. 
Chrysometa alboguttata, Banks, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (8) i. p. 258°. 
Type, 2 (androtype, ¢, missing), in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, 9 4:5, ¢ 3°5 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Tepic (fide Banks*); GuaTEMALA®, San Marcos, Tamahu, Panzos, 
Sakiyac (Sarg1); Panama, Bugaba (Champion '). 
6. Pseudometa decolorata. (Tab. XLII. fig. 22, 2 .) 
Meta decolorata, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 3, t. 1. figg. 4, 4a-c (2) °. 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 7 millim. 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, between Dolores and Chapallal (Sarg '). 
META. 
Meta, C. L. Koch, Deutschl. Ins. (Panzer), Heft. 124, nos. 12, 18 (1834). 
Metabus, O. P.-Cambridge, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. 1. p. 298 (1899). 
Type of Meta, M. fusca, C. L. Koch, = M. menardi (Latr.), Europe; that of Metabus, M. gravidus, O. P.- 
Cambr., Guatemala. 
In the original diagnosis of the genus MMetabus no differential characters are cited 
whereby one may distinguish it from Meta, to which I. gravidus is said to be closely 
allied. I cannot, moreover, at present, discover any peculiarity in the single female 
before me which would warrant its removal from Meta, though it is possible that with 
more material of both sexes one might. find some reliable mark of distinction. For 
the present, therefore, the single species of Metabus is referred to the genus Meta. 
1. Meta gravida. 
Metabus gravidus, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 299, t. 37. figg. 7, 
7a-e(¢)’. 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 11-25 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sarg '). 
AZILIA. 
Azilia, Keyserling, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxi. p. 270 (1881). 
Type A. formosa, Keyserl. America. 
The spiders belonging to this genus are nearly related to the typical Meta in their 
structural characters. The eyes of both rows are very large, and the rows are recurved, 
the laterals being widely separate and raised on low tubercles. ‘The mandibles exhibit 
