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triangular, wide, more than half as long' as maxilla; base brown, with a tonfli of biight 

 yellow in the centre ; tips yellow ; niaxilUo gibbous, as wide, or nearly as wide, as lony. 



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

 rear, and somewhat narrower than sides ; e)-es about equal in size ; MF separated by about 

 1.5 diameter : MR by about one diameter ; side eyes on tubercles, barelj- contingent, sub- 

 equal ; the space between SF and ^IF about equals the area of the latter, or 1..') their inter- 

 vening space; the distance between SR and I\IR is much greater; the clypeus has the 

 height of about 1.3 diameter MF, and is marked by rows of long whitish hairs, which are 

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

 longer and much procurved. 



LECis : 1, 2, 4, 3 ; color yellow, with dark brown annuli, armed, but not numerously, with 

 blackish spines and yellowish bristles and hairs ; palps similarl)' colored and armed, but 

 rather lighter yellow ; mandibles dark firown, 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, which covers the 

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

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

 face is reticulated, and rather sparsely covei'ed with shojt gray 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 atriolum is rather high, the 

 portulie on either side prominent. 



PisTRim'Tiox : District of Columbia, one specimen only. (Marx Collection.) 



No. 21. Epeira punctigera Dole.sih.\i.l. Plate VI, Figs. 4, 4a-b. 



1857. Epeira 2nmcHgera,DoLESCH ALL . Tweede Bijdrage t. d. Kenn. d. Arac. Ind. Arch. 



1864. Epeira triaiigiila, KsYSERLiya . . Isis, Dresden, Beschreib. Orbit., p. 98, tab. v., 12-14. 



1871. Epeira inciii/alri.r, Koch, L. . . . Arach. Austral., p. (iti, pi. v., 8-9. 



1877. Epeira vatia, Thorell Studi I., Ragni di Selebes, p. 382-384. 



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



1881. Epeira punctigera, Thorei.l . . . Studi sui Rag. ^lalesi e Papuani, p. 104, var. vatia. 



1889. Epeira punctigera, Mar.x .... Catalogue, 547. 



1892. Ej)eira })unctigera,TS.EYiiETiLiy!a . . Spin. Amer. Epeir., p. 13(i, pi. vii., 100. 



Fem.\le: Rather uniform in color, the dorsum a brighter yellow or whitish, the colors 

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

 abdomen, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide. Keyserling describes a female 11.2 mm. long, with an 

 abdomen 8 mm. long by 7.2 mm. wide. 



Cei'h.\lothorax : 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 ; cephaUc suture distinct ; corselet grooves rather indistinct ; color dark uniform 

 yellow, with a yellowish patch at the siiput, 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 coxae-I, III ; strong yellow- 

 hairs ; labium large, subtriangular ; maxillie wide as long, subtriangular at tips, w-hich 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 lilack 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 MF; space between SR and MR more than twice the area of ^IR. 



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 tuft« of 



