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A. E. Verrill — Tlie Bermuda Islands. 



or dark brown lines, often very distinct, producing a map-like effect. 

 There are often three or four divergently transverse black lines, and 

 a posterior median dorsal one, and usually two small rhombic or 

 cordate median dorsal areas, enclosed by narrow dark lines, and a 

 smaller rounded one farther forward ; the sides are covered with 

 curved or wavy lines enclosing irregular areas ; three small, dark 

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Figure 211. — Filisiata hibernalis ; female; slightly enlarged. Figure 214. — 

 Venomous Spider (Lathrodectus geometricus) ; a, female with cocoon ; />, 

 another female ; about nat. size. Phot, by A. H. V. 



brown, roundish spots on each side ; legs rufous-brown, with dark 

 brown bands at the joints ; spinnerets surrounded by a black ring 

 interrupted by five or six white spots. The eggs are large, enclosed 

 in a tough spheroidal cocoon, to which the female clings tenaciously. 

 Found on fences, etc. Length of body of female, 8-1 mm ; abdomen, 

 (3 to 7 ram . 



Bathyphantes, sp. A small, plain, slate-colored spider. 



Uloborus genicidatus Oliv.; Ring-legged Spider. Figures 215, 216. 



Adults are conspicuously marked with black spots and rings. 



Cephalothorax nearly black, with a lanceolate pale spot posteriorly ; 



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Figure 213. — Ring-legged Spider (Uloborus (jeniculotus) ; o, dorsal view of 

 female, xH; 216 — b, palpus of male; c, epigynum ; after Marx. 



abdomen dark gray or pale gray, thickly specked and blotched with 

 black, the black often predominant; legs yellowish brown, or light 



