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triangular, wide, more than half as long as maxilla ; base brown, with a touch of bright 

 yellow in the centre ; tips yellow ; niaxillie gibljoiis, as wide, or nearly as wide, as long. 



Eyes: Ocular quad on an eminence higher before; the front slightly wider than the 

 rear, and somewhat narrower than sides ; eyes about equal in size ; MF separated by about 

 1.5 diameter ; MR l>y about one diameter ; side eyes on tubercles, barely contingent, sub- 

 equal ; the space l_)etween SF and MF about equals the area of the latter, or 1.5 their inter- 

 vening space ; tlie distance between SR and MR is much greater ; the clypeus has the 

 height of aljout 1.3 diameter MF, and is marked by rows of long whitish hairs, wdiich are 

 also found in the eye space; front row is slightly procurved, almost aligned; rear I'ow 

 longer and much procurved. 



Legs : 1, 2, 4, 3 ; color yellow, with dark brown annuli, armed, Ijut not numerously, w itli 

 blackish spines and yellowish bristles and hairs ; palps similarly colored and armed, but 

 rather lighter yellow ; mandibles dark brown, conical, retreating toward the face, rather long. 



Abdomen: Triangular ovate, widest across the shoulders, narrowing somewhat toward 

 the front and apex ; the folium is a broad blanket of yellowish white, whii'h covers the 

 entire dorsal field, extending ujj in a triangular form toward the front, tlie apex almost 

 touching the cephalothorax on either side ; the base is marked with dark Ijrown ; the sur- 

 face is reticulated, and rather sparsely covered with short graj' hairs ; the ventral pattern is 

 a mottled dark brown figure, with an interrupted band of yellow on either side ; the 

 epigynum (Fig. 3a) has a short wide scapus, rounded at the tip, where it is spooned, the 

 channel extending along the lower surface of the .scapus; the atrioluni is rather high, the 

 ])ortulie on either side prominent. 



Distribution: District of Oilumbia, one specimen only. (Marx Collection.) 



No. 21. Epeira punctigera DoLE.scn.u,L. Plate VI, Fig.s. 4, 4a-b. 



1857. Epeira imnctigera, Doleschall . Tweede Bijdrage t. d. Kenn. d. Arac. Ind. Arch. 



1864. £p«ra (n>r»yi//((, Keyseruno . . Isis, Dre.sdcn, Beschreib. Orbit, p. 98, tab, v., 12-14. 



1871. Epeira iiidigalri.r, KocH, L. . . . Arach. Austral., p. <)(i, pi. v., 8-9. 



1877. Ej)eira vatia, Thoret.l Studi I., Ragni di Selebes, p. 382-3,84. 



1878. Epeira punctigera, Thorell . . . Studi II., Ragni di Amboina, p. 59. 



1881. Epeira punctigera, Thorell . . . Studi sui Rag. Malesi e Papuani, p. 104, var. vatia. 



1889. Epeira punctigera, Marx .... Catalogue, 547. 



1892. Epeira punctigera, 'K.£\HEni.i-XG . . Spin. Ainer. Epeii-., p. 13(i, pi. vii., 100. 



Female: Rather uniform in color, the dorsum a brighter yellow or whitish, the colors 

 evidently faded in alcohol. Total length, 9 mm. ; cephalothorax, 4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide ; 

 abdomen, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide. Keyserling descril)es a female 11.2 mm. long, with an 

 abdomen 8 mm. long by 7.2 mm. wide. 



Cephalothorax : The corselet well rounded at margin, rather high, and peaked at the 

 crest ; depressed and wide at the face ; fosse not deep, being rather a slit upon the sloping 

 posterior side ; cephalic suture distinct ; corselet grooves rather indistinct ; color dark uniform 

 yellow, with a yellowish patch at the caput, the base covered with whitish yellow hairs; 

 sternum yellow, with a broad lighter yellow median band; shield shaped, triangular at 

 the apex, compressed in the middle ; sternal cones distinct before coxte-I, III ; strong yellow 

 hairs ; labium large, subtriangular ; maxilhe wide as long, subtriangular at tips, which are 

 inclined towards each other ; sparsely covered with curved dark bristles. 



Eyes: Ocular quad on high rounded eminence, front as wide as sides, narrowest 

 behind; the four eyes about equal, and on black rings; MF separated by nearly two diame- 

 ters; MR by about one; side eyes on not very prominent tubercles, barely contingent; SF 

 larger than SR ; clypeus height about 2.5 diameter MF ; front row slightly recurved, almost 

 aligned, the rear row longer and procurved; space between SF and MF equals at least 1.5 

 area of j\IF; space between SR and MR more than twice the area of MR. 



Legs: 1, 2, 4, 3; stout, well clothed with pubescence ; strong yellow spines, with brown- 

 ish bases; underneath each femur is a single row of long bristlelike spines, and tufts of 



