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Epeira prompta Htz. 



Paint Rock, Linville, Murphy, Black Mt., Durham, Swannanoa 

 Valley, sweeping meadow. 



Epeira catawba n. sp. PI. XXXIV, fig. 4. 



Cephalothorax dark brown, paler in eye-region, two pale median 

 spots behind eyes, two more elongate near middle, and the posterior 

 part under the abdomen is pale. Abdomen whitish-gray above, 

 mottled and streaked behind and on the sides by greenish- white ; 

 underside pale, mottled with brownish, and with dark streaks radiating 

 from the spinnerets ; sternum pale, with faint dark spots on the sides ; 

 legs pale, marked with .dark brown, two or three spots on femora, 

 the patella mostly dark, and two spots on tibiae, less distinctly on the 

 metatarsi. Abdomen short, and broad, and high, about as broad 

 behind as long, the base at middle with a pair of small approximate 

 humps, at each outer corner a double hump, not elevated; the tip, 

 seen from below, shows tw r o other humps not far from the spinnerets; 

 sternum with four humps each side and one behind; finger of epigy- 

 mira quite long, transversely wrinkled on basal part. 



Length 3 mm. 



From Asheville (July). 



Plectana stellata Htz. 



Morganton, Durham. 

 Metepeira labyrinthea Htz. 



Morganton, Durham, Pineola, Linville. 



Acacesia foliata Htz. 



Morganton, Paint Rock, Black Mt., Durham, Chapel Hill. 



Zilla montana Koch. 



Roan Mt. Summit, on houses and dead trees. 



Singa truncata Banks. 



Swannanoa Valley, in web near ground. 

 Mangora gibberosa Htz. 



Black Mt., Blowing Rock, Durham, Chapel Hill. 



Mangora maculata Keys. 



Black Mt., Chapel Hill. 

 Mangora placida Htz. 



Paint Rock, Linville, Durham, Chapel Hill, Mt. Graybeard, Swan- 

 nanoa Valley, very common. 



Cyclosa conica Pallas. 



Linville, Durham, Black Mt., Blowing Rock, Balsam, Chapel Hill, 

 Pineola, Black Mts. (Beutenmuller). 



