chamberlin: the arachnida. 245 



Cephalothorax with head strongly narrowed. Abdomen more 

 nearly strictly rhomboidal than in foliata. 



Length of female 6.7 mm. 



Locality — SsLii Miguel, 6,000 feet, July. (Type, M. C. Z. 213, 

 one female). 



Among other features this species would seem to be clearly sepa- 

 rated from foliata by the presence of the conspicuous black band 

 along the venter. 



EusTALA FUSCOVITTATA (Key serluig) . 



Epeira fusco-vittata Keyserling, Sitzungsb. Naturw. ges. Isis, 1863, p. 129, 



pi. 6, f. 18. 

 Cyclosa thorelli McCook, Amer. spiders, 1893, 3, p. 228, pi. 19, f. 11. 

 Eustala caudata Banks, Proc. Cal. acad. sci., 1898, 1, p. 255, pi. 15, f. 5. 

 Eustala fusco-vittata O. P. Cambridge, Biol. Cent. Americana, 1904, 2, p. 505, 



pi. 48, f. 3, 4. 



A species previously known from Mexico and the West Indies south 

 to Brazil and Paraguay. 

 Locality. — Panama, June. (M. C. Z. 214, three females). 



Eustala andina, sp. nov. 



Carapace with thoracic part pale yellow, the head light brownish. 

 Sternum light brown, a pale median longitudinal line. Legs testa- 

 ceous ; femora with a broad dark band at distal end, a broader median 

 one, and an indistinct proximal one; patellae dusky, black at distal 

 end; tibiae with three broad dark rings not sharply delimited; meta- 

 tarsi also with three dark rings; tarsi dark except at proximal end, 

 the mesal portion darkest. Abdomen deep brown in an area covering 

 most of the dorsum, this area with sides concave and converging 

 caudad, the edges wavy, dark, and bordered with yellow; sides 

 dusky or brownish over a yellowish background. Median portion 

 of venter more blackish, enclosing a yellow median dot midway be- 

 tween the genital furrow and the spinnerets and a pair of these nearer 

 the spinnerets. 



Abdomen subtriangular with the anterior corners rounded and the 

 caudal end narrowly truncate, this truncate caudal end presenting 

 three low elevations or crenulations. 



Posterior row of eyes conspicuously recurved; median eyes once 

 and a fourth their diameter apart and about three times their diameter 



