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PART III.— PLATES AND INDEX. 



Phototype of Professor N. M. Hentz (from a iiliotograjih in possession of the 



Boston Natural History Society) Frontispiece 



Pages 



Index 278-284 



Advertisement 285 



Plate I. — Species of Epeira — Argiope Marxii 290-291 



II.— Species of Epeira 294-295 



III.— Species of Epeira 298-299 



IV.— Species of Epeira 302-303 



v.— Species of Epeira 306-307 



VI.— Species of Epeira 310-311 



VII.— Species of Epeira— Nephila Wilderi 314-315 



VIIL— Species of Epeira 318-319 



IX.— Species of Epeira 322-323 



X.— Species of Epeira 326-327 



XL— Species of Epeira 330-331 



XII.— Ordgarius—Marxia— Verrucosa 334-335 



XIII. — Wagneria — Kaira — Wixia — Carepalxis — Marxia — Gasteracantha 338-339 



XIV. — Argiope — Hentzia — Epeira — Gasteracantha 342-343 



XV. — Argiope cophinaria, A. argyraspis 346-347 



XVI. — Argiope argentata, A. argyraspis, A. cophinaria 350-351 



XVII. — Species of Cyclosa— Cyrtophora 354-355 



XVIII.— Species of Zilla— Epeira Peckhami 358-359 



XIX. — Species of Singa — Circidia funebris — Cyclosa Thorelli 362-363 



XX. — Argyroepeira — Abbotia — Singa variabilis 366-367 



XXI.— Species of Acrosoma 370-371 



XXII. — Larinia — Drexelia^Meta — Epeira nephiloides 374-375 



XXIII.— Species of Nephila— Hentzia basilica 378-379 



XXIV.— Nephila— Argyroepeira— Abbotia— Eucta 382-383 



XXV.— Tetragnatha— Eugnatha 380-387 



XXVI.— Species of Pachygnatha 390-391 



XXVII.— Uloborus—Hyptiotes—Theridiosoma 394-395 



XXVIII. — Pachygnatha — Tetragnatha — Eucta — Uloborus — Facsimile specimens of 



the manuscript drawings of Baron Walckenaer 398-399 



XXIX. — Theridium — Agalena — Dictyna — Segestria— Cteniza — Atypus — Misumena — 



Phidippus— Zygoballus— Astia 402-403 



XXX. — Lycosa tigrina, L. arenicola, L. ramulosa — Pucetia aurora 400—107 



