474 ARANEIDEA. 
seen from above, it is broad at the base and gradually narrowed to the bluntly rounded apex, forming an 
isosceles triangle, the lateral margins being slightly sinuous, but nowhere so constricted as to mark off 
the spoon-like apical portion from the basal portion ; the infra-marginal tubercle with the orifice on each 
side is present; the spoon itself is very shallow. 
Hab. Norta AmeErica2.—Mexico, Amula (H. H. Smith); Costa Rica, San José 
(Sarg); Panama (coll. Keyserling }*).—Harrt * 2. 
Both Emerton and McCook have determined N. vulgaris (Hentz) to be identical 
with the American form of Araneus sclopetarius, Clerck, and the mere statement by 
Mr. Banks [Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) i. p. 254] that the former species is identical 
with WV. volucripes, Keyserl., is not sufficient to upset the first (Emerton’s) 
determination. 
NEOSCONELLA, gen. nov. 
Type N. styligera, sp.n. Guatemala. 
g. Coxa i. with a hook and femur ii. with a groove; a small tubercle above coxa i, Coxa and femur of 
pedipalp with a coniform spur and chitinous ridge respectively. Tibia ii. not incrassate, with three 
long spines beneath in the median third of the segment, four stout spines on the upper margin of the 
inner side and two on the lower margin in the apical third of the segment. Protarsus ii. with a single 
spine on the outside about the middle. Femora i. and ii. with a double series of fine spines beneath ; 
iii, and iv. with a single series. Patella of pedipalp with two apical spines. Tarsal sheath bearing a 
well-developed uncus at its base. Lateral eye-groups not projecting forwards, situated well behind the 
anterior margin of the base of the mandible. Central anterior eyes prominent, but not specially so. 
Posterior row of eyes slightly recurved; anterior row also slightly recurved. Quadrangle narrower 
behind ; posterior centrals slightly smaller, one-third of a diameter apart; anterior centrals a full 
diameter apart. Coxe and trochanters ii., iii., and iv. without cusps or spines. Palpal bulb bearing a 
very small bifid clavis, without a large cymbium, but with a lamella on the outer side, under the 
upper margin of which lies a conspicuous stylum. 
Q. Posterior central eyes separated by less than a diameter, not smaller than the anterior centrals, which 
are one full diameter apart. Central quadrangle distinctly narrower behind, not longer than broad ; 
both rows recurved. Laterals almost in contact, anteriors slightly larger, not situated on a tubercle. 
Lower margin of fang-groove with three, upper with four teeth. Femora i—iv. without spines beneath. 
Patelle i.iv. with a stout apical spine. Carapace not raised or convex behind the eyes. Sternum 
not, or slightly, longer than broad. Scapus of vulva not fused to the basal portion, free, not specially 
looped back. Abdomen oval, without shoulder-tubercles. 
Nors.—In other species of the genus tibia i1. of the male is incrassate and differently spined. 
The species known to me may be recognized as follows: 
Males. 
a. Femora of legs i. and ii. without black lines in front, either 
unicolorous yellow or more or less suffused with brown. 
a’. The stylum (fig. 1, s¢.) lyimg beneath the upper margin of the 
lamina of the palpal bulb, slender, uniformly parallel-sided, 
blunt at its apex. ©... ee ee ee ee 
b. The stylum (fig. 8, st.) of the palpal bulb constricted basally, 
oblong-oval, terminating ina sharp point. . . . . . . . solersioides, O. P.-Cambr. 
_§. Femora of legs i. and ii. with three narrow black lines in front . . lineatipes, O. P.-Cambr. 
styligera, sp. n. 
