TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART III.— PLATES AND INDEX. 



Phototype of Professor N. M. Hentz (from a photograph in possession of the 



Boston Natural History Society) Frontispiece 



Pages 



Index 278-284 



Advertisement 285 



Plate I. — Species of Epeira — Argiope Marxii 290-291 



Il.-Species of Epeira 294-295 



III.— Species of Epeira 298-299 



IV.— Species of Epeira 302-303 



V. — Species of Epeira 306-307 



VI.— Species of Epeira 310-311 



VII.— Species of Epeira— Nephila Wilderi 314-315 



VIII.— Species of Epeira 318-319 



IX.— Species of Epeira 322-323 



X.— Species of Epeira 326-327 



XI.— Species of Epeira 330-331 



XII. — Ordgarius — Marxia — VeiTucosa 334-335 



XIII. — Wagneria — Kaira — Wixia — Carepalxis — Marxia — Gast«racantha 338-339 



XIV. — Argiope — Hentzia — Epeira — Gasteracantha 342-343 



XV. — Argiope cophinaria, A. argyraspis 346-347 



XVI.— Argiope argentata, A. argyraspis, A. cophinaria 350-351 



XVII.— Species of Cyclosa— Cyrtophora 354-355 



XVIII.— Species of Zilla— Epeira Peckhami 358-359 



XIX.— Species of Singa— Circidia fanebris— Cyclosa Thorelli 362-363 



XX. — Argyroepeira — Abbotia — Singa variabilis 366-367 



XXI. — Species of Acrosoma 370-371 



XXII. — Larinia — Drexelia — Meta — Epeira nephiloides 374-375 



XXIII.— Species of Nephila— Hentzia basilica 378-379 



XXIV. — Nephila— Argyroepeira — Abbotia — Eucta 382-383 



XXV.— Tetragnatha— Eugnatha 386-387 



XXVI.— Species of Pachygnatha 390-391 



XXVII.— Uloborus—Hyptiotes—Theridiosoma 394-395 



XXVIIL— Pachygnatha— Tetragnatha— Eucta— Uloborus— Facsimile specimens of 



the manuscript drawings of Baron AValckenaer 398-399 



XXIX.— Theridium— Agalena— Dictyna— Segestria— Cteniza— Atypus— Misumena— 



Phidippus— Zygoballus— Astia 402-403 



XXX.— Lycosa tigrina, L. arenicola, L. ramulosa— Pucetia aurora 406-407 



