ARGYOPE.—METARGYOPE. 45] 
Argiope argenteola, McCook, Amer. Spid. i. p. 1087. 
Argiope fenestrinus, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. v. p. 39, t. 155. fig. 361 (?)°. 
Hab. North America? ®7.—Muxico, Tepic (fide Banks‘), Chilpancingo, Amula, 
Tierra Colorada (H. H. Smith); Guaremata (Sarg); Costa Rica, Esmeralda (Biolley) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — Brazi?; AntitLEs, St. Vincent ®, Mar- 
tinique 2. 
2. Argyope blanda. (Tab. XLIII. figg. 1,14, ¢.) 
Argiope blanda, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 267, t. 37. figg.2,2a-f(¢)'. 
Type, d, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 4 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sarg). 
METARGYOPE, gen. nov. 
Type ©. trifasciata (Forsk&l). Neotropical region. 
The species which are referred to this genus are those in which the abdomen is not 
lobate and the vulva is divided by a septum. ‘T'wo groups are recognizable, those 
without a shoulder protuberance and those with one on each side. 
1. Metargyope trifasciata. (Tab. XLIII. figg 2, ¢; 3, 3a, 6, 2.) 
Aranea trifasciata, Forskal, Descr. Animalium, etc. p. 86 (1775) °. | 
Epeira argyraspides, Walck. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 110°; Abbot’s Georgian Spiders, no. 156 (?)’. 
Epeira latreilla, Walck. loc. cit. p. 108 *. 
Epeira mauricia, Walck. loc. cit. p. 108’. . 
Epeira fasciata, Hentz, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. v. p. 468°; Spid. U.S. p. 107, t. 12. fig.8 (2) 7. 
Epeira webbii, Lucas, Hist. Canaries, Arachn. p. 38, t. 6. fig. 5 (2) °. 
Epeira flavipes, Nicolet, in Gay’s Hist. Chile, Zool. iti. p. 493°. 
Argiope transversa, Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci. vi, p. 330, t. 24. fig. 20 (¢) "; Banks, Proc. 
Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) 1. p. 256 (2). 
Argiope argyraspis, McCook, Amer. Spid. iii. p. 219, t. 15. figg. 10, 11, 12, t. 16. fig. 4 (9), 
t. 15. figg. 7, 8, 9, t. 16. figg. 8, 3a,b(9)”. 
Hab. North America?’ !0l,_ Mexico, Orizaba (fide Banks; H. H. Smith); 
GuateMaLA (Mus. Brit.; Sarg); Costa Rica, San José (Sarg).— Lower Amazons 
(Ff. P.-C.); Cu1?; Atiantic Is.§; Mauritius +>. 
This species somewhat resembles Miranda bruennichit, Scop., and is found—in 
Madeira, at all events—with it. J. trifasciata may be easily distinguished by the 
form of the vulva, that of IM. bruennichii being similar in shape, except that it is shorter 
and broader, to that of I. cophinaria; while the vulva of WM. trifasciata is divided 
by a thin septum, its upper margin being broad and rounded, incurving below and 
behind into a pair of equal cavities. . 
The bulb of the male palpus has a lower spiraloid lamina, with a spirally curved 
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