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Epeira minima Cambridge. 



Biol. C. Am. Arachn. Aran., II, 471, 1904. 



Escazii. 



Epeira domiciliorum Hentz. 



Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., V, 469, 1847. 



San Jose. 



Epeira detrimentosa Cambridge. 



Biol. C. Amer. Arachn. Aran., I, 26, 1889. 



San Jose (B.); El Higuito, near San Mateo (Pac), 250 m., January 

 (B. and T.). 



Epeira globosa Keyserling. 



Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 1865, 820. 



El Higuito, near San Mateo (Pac), 250 m., January (B. and T.). 



Epeira incerta Cambridge. 



Biol. C. Am. Arachn. Aran., I, 23, 1889. 



San Jose, abundant house spider; Fortuna (T. and B.); Cartago, 8th 

 July (Picado); Tiribi; La Verbena; Surubres (B.); Aguas Calientes 

 (Picado); Anonos, September; Machuca (B.); San Joaquin Heredia 

 Espinach. 



Epeira gravabilis Cambridge. 



Biol. C. Am. Arachn. Aran., I, 33, 1889. 



Volcan Poas, March. 

 Epeira miorosoma n. sp. 



Male; cephalothorax yellowish, eyes on black spots; legs yellowish, 

 femora and tibia? darkened on apical half; abdomen yellowish brown, 

 with an indistinct, broad, dark brown median area, containing a pair 

 of small yellow spots ; sternum pale. Abdomen twice as long as broad ; 

 legs not thickened, and without groups of spines. The male palpus 

 shows a curved black piece at apex, and on the inner side a plate with 

 two prominent black teeth. A female (probably of this species) has 

 the legs and body more unicolorous, sternum darker; abdomen nearly 

 round. The smallest Epeira known to me. Length cT 2 mm., 

 9 2.2 mm. 



From La Palma, on bushes, Costa Rica (Tristan). 



Epeira anastera Walckenaer. 

 Ins. Apt., II, 33, 1842. 



La Verbena, in nest of a mud-dauber wasp. 



Epeira smithi Cambridge. 



Biol. C. Am. Arachn. Aran., I, 280, 1898. 



Santa Maria Dota. 



