NEOSCONA. A471 
number and character of the spines on tibia ii. (see Plate). The spine on the clavis of the genital bulb 
is curved, and its point parallel with the apex of the main portion. 
_Q. Carapace deep brown, paler in the middle. Mandibles, coxee and trochanters of legs, mouth-parts, and 
sternum deep brown, the latter with a pale central line. Palpi and legs orange-yellow-brown annulated 
with black ; femora with an apical annulus and often a central indistinct ring or merely suffused dorsally 
with black ; tibie and protarsi with an apical, median, and basal ring; patelle with an apical annulus ; 
tarsi with the apices black. Abdomen deep brown or black, with the normal central dorsal white band, 
entire or scalloped, entirely white or mottled with black. ‘The five black lateral spots are lost in the 
ground-colour, but are often margined posteriorly with white; lateral area with a broad broken white 
band ; ventral area deep brown, with the usual six white spots—one on each side of the vulva, a pair 
midway to, and another smaller pair (wider apart) in front of, the spinners. The colours and markings 
are probably extremely variable. 
Vulva. The scapus of the vulva is not, as in WV. oawacensis and N. conifera, geniculate in the apical portion, 
nor rounded, seen in profile, as in NV. cooksoni, but much straighter from base to apex; while the cochlea 
is longer, narrower, and more bluntly pointed at the apex, and the scapus is not dorsally tuberculo- 
rugulose. 
Hab. Marianne Is.; Funarutr®; Guam!; CeLepes; AMBOINA 3 >. 
The male of this species in general appearance is very like a small V. oaxacensis, 
but it is quite distinct from that and other American forms. | 
5. Neoscona minima, sp.n. (Tab. XLIV. fige. 11, lla, b,¢; 12,124, 4, 2.) 
Type 3, gynetype 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length, ¢ 5, 2 7 millim. ; 
3. Similar in general characters to JV. theis and N. arabesca (trivittata, Keyserl.). Carapace yellow-brown, 
with the central strie black. Legs yellow, without annulations; sternum yellow, margins narrowly 
banded with brown. Abdomen with a dusky dorsal folium, bearing the usual white central band, having 
on the apical half the usual series of six oblique black spots on each side, and immediately in front of the 
first pair of these a more conspicuous white spot. Tibia 1i., seen from beneath, straight, with a single 
long spine curving across inwards on the underside at the base, besides other short spines, of which there 
are four or five on the central area, and a median outer series of three or four, the number and character 
of the latter, so far as the length is concerned, varying in different individuals; on the inner side are 
about twelve separate spines, not very stout nor curving downwards, more scattered and not ranged in 
any definite serial manner. Femora i.—iv. almost devoid of spines beneath, but in some examples there 
are three or four onii., iii.,andiv. The clavis of the genital bulb has the lateral spine closer to the apex 
than in WN. theis and others. Coxa iv. is without a conical spur. 
9. Carapace yellow-brown, with broad marginal and central dark bands. Legs dull yellow, with faint 
annulations on the femora, patelle, and tibia. Sternum brown, with a broad central pale band. Mouth- 
parts brown at the base. Abdomen globular-oval, sometimes more pointed apically ; dark brown, dull 
yellow, or yellow-white ; with a central dorsal dark longitudinal area, or folium, having the usual white 
central band, with five or six oblique lateral dark spots on each side in the apical half, and always with a 
very conspicuous and isolated small white spot in front of the first of the lateral black spots, on each 
side ; upper lateral area white, the lower area dark brown; ventral area with a series of three white spots 
on each side and one on each side of the spinners, the genital rima being paler in some examples. 
Vulva very similar to that of NV. arabesca in shape, but with the scapus shorter and the spatula not narrowed 
where it joins the base. In both species the basal portion is dilated and more or less abruptly marked 
off from the spatula, thus differing from that of N. volucripes. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa, Orizaba, Mexico city (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Cahabon, 
Coban, Chicoyoito (Sarg). 
In general appearance this species closely resembles NV. arabesca (trivittata, Keys.), 
and if it were not for the perfectly distinct form of tibia ii. of the males one would 
