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quadrangle much narrower behind, scarcely more than half as wide as in front; broader than long. 
Patella of palpus with two anterior spines. Femora without rows of spines beneath. Vulva with a 
short, broad scapus. The tarsal sheath of the palpal bulb of the male has a chitinous hook. Colulus 
present. 
1. Drexelia directa. (Tab. XLIII. figg. 12, 12¢, ¢; 13,134, b, 2.) 
Epeira directa, Hentz, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. v. p. 478, t. 31. fig. 21(9)'; Spid. U.S. 
p- 119, t. 13. fig. 21 (9)? 
Drexelia directa, McCook, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1892, p. 127°; Amer. Spid. iii. p. 249, t. 6. figg. 11, 
lla(¢), 10, 10a, 4, t. 22. figg. 3, 3 a-e (2)*. 
Larinia directa, Banks, Ent. News, v. p. 8°; Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) i. p. 257°. 
Epeira tetragnathoides, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. pp. 16, 18, t. 7. figg. 9, 
9a,6(38),10,104,5b(¢)". 
Epeira intercisa, O. P.-Cambr. loc. cit. p. 18, t. 5. figg. 11, lla, d(¢)’. . 
Epeira deludens, Marx, Spinn. Amer., Epeiride, p. 261, t. 18. figg. 195, 195 a (?), 1955, ce(¢)’. 
Type ¢, gynetype 9, of Z. tetragnathoides, type 3 of E. intercisa, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, 
3 45, Q 55-8 millim. 
Hab. Nortu America! ? 4.—Mexico, Tepic (fide Banks ®); Guatmmata®, Sachenmax, 
Sakiyac, Cumbre de San Joaquin (Sarg”); Panama, Bugaba (Champion? ®). 
McCook is the first author who has given a recognizable description and figure of 
Epeira directa, Hentz, and I have no doubt that he is correct in regarding E. tetragna- 
thoides, O. P.-Cambr., as identical with it. ‘The male has no coxal hook on leg i., nor 
femoral groove on leg ii.; but it has the maxillary cone and chitinous ridge on the 
base of the femur of the palpus, and two long curved spines on the anterior margin of 
the patella. 
2. Drexelia bellona. 
Larinia bellona, Banks, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) i. p. 257, t. 15. fig. 6 (3 2)". 
Type d, gynetype @, in coll. Calif. Acad. Sci. Total length, ¢ 4, 2 7 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Tepic 1. 
This species is probably distinct from E. directa, but Banks’s figures are not 
sufficiently clear to enable one to suggest in what particular structural detail the 
difference might be found. This author says, however, that it may be readily distin- 
guished by its shorter abdomen, which is twice as long as wide. 
ERIOPHORA. 
Eriophora, E. Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. 1. p. 261 (1864). 
Type E. ravilla (C. L. Koch). North America. 
If McCook is correct in his identification of Epeira ravilla, then this species is con- 
generic with LE. purpurascens, O. P.-Cambr., and the other allied forms enumerated 
