510 ARANEIDEA. 
11. Kustala semifoliata. (Tab. XLVIII. figg. 20, 20a, 2.) 
Epeira semifoliata, O. P.-Cambr. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Arachn. Aran. i. p. 301, t. 36. figg. 3, 
3a-c (?)*. 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 9 millim. 
Carapace dull orange-yellow, with six small black spots on the central stria and two smaller ones behind the 
posterior eyes. Legs orange-yellow ; femora almost entirely suffused with brown, the other segments 
lightly annulated with brown. Sternum in great part yellow. Abdomen yellow-white, with a narrow 
dark dentated band in the apical half (the posterior portion of the usual folium) ; ventral area brown, 
this colour extending upwards over the lateral margins, with four very small white spots round the 
spinners and two large rounded white spots between the latter and the genital rima. Ocular area very 
prominent in the centre, quadrangle slightly narrower behind. Vulva broad and short; scapus very 
broad basally, transversely wrinkled, abruptly narrowed and curving downwards at its apex, and deeply 
indented dorsally at the sides. 
Hab. Guatemata, Cahabon (Sarg); Costa Rica (Sarg 1). 
The following species are placed for the present under the name Aranea, since it is 
next to impossible to determine their generic affinities with any degree of accuracy. 
They are as far as possible brought together into their natural groups. The forms 
described in Vol. I. under the genera Kaira, Carepalxis, Scoloderus, and Cyrtarachne 
represent good and distinct groups; Cyrtarachne 10-tuberculata belongs, however, to 
Simon’s genus Glyptogona. Epeiroides fasciolata, O. P.-Cambr., must be referred 
to the Theriosommatine ; Hentzia trivittata, O. P.-Cambr., probably to the Metine. 
1. Aranea sinistra, sp.n. (Tab. XLVIII. figg. 21, 21a, b, 2.) 
Type, 2, in coll. Godman & Salvin. Total length 20 millim. 
General characters similar to those of Epetra destricta, O. P.-Cambr., but the lateral eye-groups are further 
removed from the central quadrangle, and the abdomen has only one pair of coniform tubercles—a tubercle 
on each anterior shoulder. Tibic i. and ii. with 6—6 long spines on each side beneath. Patella of the 
palpus with a pair of apical spines. Vulva very broad at the base and dilate, the scapus being broad and 
concave above, recurved, with a narrow, central, longitudinal carina, see Plate. The carapace is 
dusky yellow-brown, the whole body being clothed with coarse yellow hairs. All the segments of the 
legs marked with dusky brown apical and median annuli, the femora having a basal one as well; 
the tarsi and patelle with a single apical annulus only. The abdomen, which is somewhat faded in 
colour, has the usual white cross-mark on the centre anteriorly, with a narrow, elongate, ~\-shaped, 
dentate folium behind; the sides mottled with umber-brown; ventral area with a broad black central 
band, enclosing an elongate-oval yellow blotch on each side anteriorly, these latter again enclosing an 
oval black-brown spot. 
_ Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
No males which I can refer to this species occur in the collection, and the females 
described possibly belong near the group of which Epeira destricta is the type. 
