^peira stellata 



JEpeira riparia 

 Ej)eira fascinta 

 Epeira cancer 



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Epeira rugosa 

 Epeira spinea 

 Epeira mitrata 

 Ep>eira caudata 



Plectana stellata * Plectana stellata. 

 Epeira nobilis ' 

 Epeira cerasiae ' 

 Epeira iris ^° 



Epeira cophinaria " Argiope cophinaria. 

 Epeira argyraspides ^'^ Argiope argyraspides. 

 Plectana ellipsoides ^^ Gasteracantha ellipsoi- 



des. 

 A crosoma gracilis. 



Acrosoma sagittata. 

 A crosoma reduviana. 

 Cyrtophora turbinata. 



Tetrag)iatha fulva. 



Plectana gracilis " 



Plectana sagittata ^'' 



Plectana reduviana '® 



Epeira turbinata " 

 " Epeira glomosa " 



'Tefragnatha grallator Tetragnatha fulva ^' 

 Phyllyra riparia Uloborus Americamis'° Uloborus Americanus 



The imuibers under which the species described by Walckenaer 

 .and listed in Abbot's figures are here given for the convenience of 

 those who wish to refer to the originals. The reference numbers 

 attaclied to them correspond with the reference numbers in the 

 isecond column of the table and in the foot notes. 



Abbot's Manuscript Numbers.— 116, 121'; 331, 346''; 375, 

 389, 484^ 126*; 119, 120^; 117"; 181, 182, 183'; 161^ 166 ^ 

 336, 341'°; 151"; 156''^; 118 '^• 47, 48"; 50 '^ 49'«; 79, 80''; 

 77, 78'«; 211, 216, 221="; 44^". 



8 id II, 171. This is probably the figure to which Hz. refers (Sp. U. S. p. 125) 

 when he cites Bosc as authority for the name. The species which Walck. has 

 named nobilis, iris and cerasiae all seem to me to be stellata, and it is odd that 

 AValck. should have put them even into a different genus from stellata which is 

 described in his "Tabl. des Araeides" p. fi,5, fig. 54. If this spider is to be placed 

 in a genus otlier than Epeira, it might retain the now aljandoned name of Flectana, 

 which is here provisionally revived to receive it. Emerton gives the species to 

 Hentz. ("New Eng. Epeiridae," p. 319). 



9 id p. 119. 10 id p. 120. " id p. 109. 12 id p. 110. i3 id p. 1-55. 

 1* id p. 193. 15 id p. 174. 16 id p. 201. " id p. 140. 



18 id p. 144. Tiiis bears some likeness to my species Cyrt. bifurca and may 

 •prove to be the same. 



19 id p. 212. Abbott figures a number of Tetragnathas including what appears 

 to be Emerton's T. caudata ( T. lacerta Wlk) ; but a careful study will be re- 

 quired to determine which are simply variations. Hentz's grallator is probably 

 the one here designated. Walckenaer's Tetragnatha zorilla (Aptr. II, p. 221 and 

 Pi. 19, 2 B) which is figured from Abbot's mss., belongs to his own genus Latro- 

 dectiis [Lath?-odectiis), and is Hentz's Theriaion verecnndum and Hneaturn. It 

 is also the Latrodectiis formidahilis and L. variolus of Walk. (Apt. Vol. I, p. 

 <)47, f)48.). The name of this interesting spider will now be Lathrodecttis form- 

 .ida bills Walck. 



'0 id p. 212. 



