DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 143 



which is lighter upon tlie base and darker upon the apical half. Two interrupted lines 

 of yellow color, on either side of the median, traverse longitudinally the dorsal field, 

 frequently obliterated toward the apex ; these encomiiass a long, lanceolate band of brown 

 color. Beyond this, at about equal distance on each side, are six inteniipted lines of black 

 spots, approximating toward the apex, and which mark out the dorsal folium. The sides 

 are a rather uniform mouse color. The venter has a l)lack, subtriangular jiatch, with two 

 smaller yellow patches at the end and a round yellow spot on each side of the black 

 spinnerets. The epigynuni (6a, 6b) has a rather narrow hood, with a strong, trowel shaped 

 scapus, dark brown, hard, glossy, spooned at the tip, furrowed almost to the base, and 

 pubescent. 



Male : Resembles the female, with abdominal markings somewhat plainer. The second 

 femur is thicker than the others, the tibia somewhat thickened, curved, and with a series 

 of short, stout clasping spines upon the inner side. 



Distribution: This species is widely distributed, especially along the Atlantic slope, 

 having been collected from Massachusetts, where it is adult in the latter part of July or 

 early August, and southward to Virginia. Westward, specimens have been obtained from 

 Missouri and Utah (Marx). It is doubtless distributed over the whole United States along 

 the parallels above imlicated, and probably is also found in the southern group of States. 



No. 5. Epeira marmorea (Ci.eeck). Plate I., Figs, l, 2; PI. II., 1, 2; PI. Ill,, 7, S. 



1757. Araneus marmorews, Cleeck . . Svenska Spindlar, p. 29, pi. 1, tab. 3. 



1757. Araneus Babel, CLERCac Ibid., pi. 1, tab. 6. 



1775. Arenea marmorea, Fabricius . . Syst. Entom., ii., p. 415, 31. 



1778. Aranea afuranlio-maculata, De 



Geee Mem., viii., p. 222, pi. 12, Figs. 10, 17. 



1797. Aranea reyalisi, Panzer Faun. Ins. Germ., 40, 21. 



1802. Aranea meliitagria, Walckenaer, Fauna Parisienne, ii., 191. 



1805. Epeira marmorea, Walckenaer . Tableau d'Araneides, p. CA. 



1832. Epeira marmorea, Sundeval . . Svenski Spind., p. 241. 



1839. Epeira marmorea, Koch .... Die Arach., v., p. 63, pi. 162, Figs. 379, 380. 



1861. Epeira marmorea, Westring . . Aran. Svec, p. 30. 



1864. Epeira scalaris, Blackwall . . . Sp. Gt. B. & I., ii., p. 331, pi. 24, 240. 



1866. Epeira pyrainidata, Menge . . . Preuss. Spinn., p. 51, pi. 3, tab. 3. 



1884. Epeira marmorea, Emerton . . . N. E. Ep., p. 307, pi. 33, Fig. 2. 



Variety: Epeira conspicellata Walckenaer. 

 1842. Epeira conspi'cfffata, Walckenaer' Ins. Apt., ii., p. 58; Abbot, G. S., No. 126. 



1847. Epeira inndaris, Hentz J. B. S., v., 470, xxxi. 



1847. Epeira. obena, Hentz Ibid., Fig. 2. 



1863. Epeira irmdariii, Kevserling . . Neuer Orb., Sitzung. Isis, p. 91, tab. v., 3. 



1869. Epeira annulipeii, Giebel .... Spinn. aus Illinois, Zeitschr. f. Gesammten Na- 



turwiss., xxxiii., 250. 



1870. Epeira marmorea, Thorell . . . Syn. Eu. Spid., p. 9, vars. intermedia, pyramidata. 

 1881. Epeira ohesa, Cambridge .... Spid. NewHnd., Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., p. 112. 

 1884. Ejjeira insularis, E.meeton . . . N. E. Ep., p. 309, pi. 32, Fig. 1. 



1888. Epeira conspicellata, McCook . . Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 5. 



1889. Epeira insidaris, McCook .... Amer. Spid. and their Spinningwork. 



1889. Epeira marmorea, McCook . . . Amer. Spid. and their Spinningwork, Vol. I., p. 77. 



1889. Epeira marmorea, Marx .... Catalogue, p. 546. 



1892. Epeira insularis, Keysbkling . . Spinnen Amerikas, Epeir., p. 170, pi. 8, 126. 



'Walckenaer has " conspicillata," perhaps a misprint; he named the species from the fancied 

 resemblance of the dorsal pattern to a pair of spectacles. The identity with Ilentz's E. insularis admits of 

 no doubt, and if our American form be held as a true species it must bear the prior name of Walckenaer, 

 as I first pointed out in 1888. 



