DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 177 



Eyes: Ocular quad on a decided prominence, about as wide as high; MF about equal 

 to MR in size; MF separated by about 1.5 diameters, and by about an equal space from 

 MR. The latter separated by about one-half <liameter ; side eyes separated by a slight space. 

 SF larger than SR, the latter being placed well to the side of the former, and in their 

 curvature. The front row recurved, rear almost aligned ; SF separated from JIF about 1.3 

 the space which divides the latter, or about the area of the latter; SR from MR by about 

 twice the area of the latter; clypeus about 1.5 to 2 diameters MF. 



Legs; 1, 2, 4, 3; stout, well armed with yellow spines and bristles with dark bases; 

 joints with brown apical and median annuli ; palps colored and marked as legs ; mandibles 

 conical, yellow. 



Abdomen : Triangular ovate ; the length about equals the breadth across the base, at 

 which point are two well-developed tubercles. The color varies from dark brown to yellow- 

 ish brown. The tubercles are beautifully reticulated, as is also the subtriangnlar basal 

 front, which slopes rather sharply to the cephalothorax ; in the middle of the base is a 

 cruciform marking of yellow color. The folium is somewhat undulated laterally, but indi- 

 viduals vary in this respect. The dorsum is well arched, the spinnerets distal. A squarish 

 patch of brown marks the venter, bordered with a broad reticulated yellow ribbon ; the 

 spinnerets are brown, except a slight ring of yellow. The epigynum (Fig. 7d) has a well 

 developed scapus, broad at the base and narrowing toward the top ; it is much wrinkled 

 and curved, as shown in the side view (7b), and extends well over the portulre. 



Distribution : Massachusetts and New York ; probably all of New England and the 

 northern Middle States. Specimens received from Mr. Nathan Banks, Ithaca, N. Y. 



No. 35. Epeira miniata W.vlckenaer. Plate YIII, Figs. 8, 9; PI. X, Figs. 7, 8. 



18.37. Epeira miniata yVAU'KESAEK . . Ins. Apt., ii.. No. 17, p. .39; Abbot, G. S., Nos. 228, 



229, 230. 

 1837. Epeira eingulata ^VALCKENAER . Ins. Apt., ii.. No. 18, p. 40 ; Abbot's " Belted 



Spider," Nos. 232, 365. 

 1837. Epeira guttukda, Wai.ckexaer . . Ins. Apt., ii.. No. 65, p. 78 ; Abbot, G. S., No. 233. 

 1837. Epeira bieittata, AValckenaer . . Ins. Apt., ii., p. 78, No. 66 ; Abbot, G. S., No. 234. 



1850. Epeira scutulata, Hentz B. J. S., p. 19, iii., 3; Sp. U. S., p. 121, xiv., 3. 



1879. Epeira pnnctillata, Keyserling . Neue Spinn. aus Amer., i., Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. 



Wien, p. 304, pi. iv., 7, male palp. 



1889. Epeira scutulata Marx Catalogue, p. 547. 



1892. Epeira scutulata Keyserling . . Spinn. Amerik. Ep., p. 129, tab. vi., 96, fem. 



In giving the synonyma of this beautiful species I have been guided by my studies of 

 Abbot's MSS., and my notes thereon show that I regard Nos. 228, 229, and 230 as the same 

 species, and consider that 230, an immature male, also belongs to the same species. No. 228 

 resembles those forms in my collection in which two oval white patches stand out prom- 

 inently upon the dorsal base of the abdomen between the tubercles. The colors are yellow, 

 the round whitish patches red. The dorsal tubercles are strongly suggested in No. 228, but 

 are represented in No. 229, which is distinctly marked by the ^'-shaped rows of black spots 

 on the margin of the folium. No. 230 of Abbot is a yellow specimen with brownish folium, 

 and a red bow along the abdominal front. The V-shaped spots show distinctly in this 

 example, which, like No. 227, is an immature male. Abbot's Nos. 232 and 233 appear to bfe 

 the same species, although the abdominal tubercles are indistinctly indicated, or so nearly 

 wanting that one hesitates to decide. They are beautifully colored. No. 233 has the ceph- 

 alothorax and legs of greenish yellow ; the abdomen green and yellow, with a median 

 lateral stripe of brown with yellow centre ; the eight V-shaped spots are brown within 

 yellow circles. No. 233 (Epeira guttulata, Walck.) has the cephalothorax, legs, and abdom- 

 inal front yellow, the abdomen orange brown, with eight black V-shaped spots within 

 yellow circles. I place this number in the synonyma with less confidence than the others, 



