154 AMERICAN SPIDEKS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. 



eyes not greatlj' differing in size; MF removed about 1.3 diameter; MR about one diameter; 

 side eyes ujjon tubercles ; SF removed from MF by a space not greater tban, and scarcely 

 as great as that which separates MF, tlius iliflerinr/ entirely from the eijen of llie r/eniis Epeira ; 

 the space between SR and MR is at least twice the interval between MR, and about equals 

 the distance between MF ; all the eyes are upon black bases, giving them a blackish apjiear- 

 ance ; the clypeus is about the height of one diameter of MF ; the front row is slightly 

 recurved, the rear row procurved. 



Legs: 1, 2, 4, 3; stout, yellow, with brown annuli at the tips; the spines compara- 

 tively few and very long; the palps are colored and armored as the legs; mandibles long, 

 conical, somewhat widened at the tips ; yellowish brown in color. 



Abdomen : Ovate, decidedly narrower in front than behind, differing therein from 

 typical Epeira, and widest about two-thirds the distance from the front ; the central pat- 

 tern is a bottle shaped figure, with undulating edges, being blackish l)rown, the centre a 

 lighter brown or yellowish hue ; on either side are irregular borders of white, then follows 

 a light band of yellowish brown, then another white, and so to the sides, which are dark 

 brown ; the whole surface is beautifully reticulated ; the dorsum is highly arched, almost a 

 semicircle ; the spinnerets are distal ; the venter a brown patch, flanked on either side liy a 

 white or yellowish white space, the spinnerets being black, with dark brown bases, and a 

 white patch on either side ; the epigj'uum (Fig. 4a) has a light colored scapus, somewhat 

 convoluted, with a wide, rounded, spoon shajied tip ; the portulaj on either side are strong, 

 tirown, liowl shaped objects.' 



1\Iale : Fig. 5. Little more than 2 mm. long, colored and marked much like tlie female. 

 One specimen in hand has the angular point of the dorsal folium much darker in color, giving 

 the appearance of rows of black spots, symmetrically arranged on either side.' The same 

 markings may be seen in a number of females. The legs are a uniform yellow ; tibia-II 

 without any special clasping spines upon the legs, with a few very long ones, all of dark 

 yellow color. 



DiSTRiHUTioN : I have specimens from New England, New Jersey, North Carolina, 

 (Georgia, and from as far north as Wisconsin. It has been located in Florida, and probably 

 inhabits the Western and Northern United States as far west as Mississippi, and may be 

 found beyond. 



No. 13. Epeira foliata Hentz. Plate IV., Figs. 7, 8, 8a. 



1847. Epeira foliata, Hentz J. B. S., v., 475; Sp. U. S., xiii., 14; pi. xviii., 50. 



1884. Epeira foliata, Emerton . . . . N. E. Ep., p. 318, xxxvii., 6-10. 

 1889. Epeira folifera, Marx Catalogue, p. 545. 



Fe.male : Total length, 6 mm. ; abdomen, 4 ram. long, 2.75 mm. wide ; cephalothorax, 

 nearly 2.5 mm. long, 1.75 mm. wide. The general colors (in alcohol) are brownish yellow 

 or pale brown for the fore part of the body. Mr. Emerton describes this part as grayish or 

 greenish yellow, darker toward the end of the- joints, the first and second legs being darker 

 and with dark rings in the middle of the tibia and tarsus. The abdomen is grayish or 

 olive yellow, relieved by brown or red longitudinal stripes. Dr. Marx, in his catalogue, 

 names this species E. folifera, on the grounds (Note 17) that Ilcntz's name of "foliata" had 

 been previously appropriated by Walckenaer for E. cornuta ; liiit as Walckenaer's name is 

 a synonym, and is not retained by araneologists for the species to which it is affixed, 

 Hentz's name must be regarded as the true one for this species. The species differs from 

 the typical Epeira in having both eye rows procurved, and further in the subconical shape of 

 the cephalothorax. 



Cephalothorax : Cordate, peaked and high in the middle, sloping sharply Ixuk to the 

 indented base: the fosse a deep longitudinal indentation; cephalic suture distinct; caput 

 depressed, somewhat arched at the base ; color yellow, covered with pubescence, sloping to 



* The base of the scapus in the figure is drawn too broad. 



