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Distribution: I have specimens from New Jersey, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, 

 anil California; Hentz described it from Alabama; Dr. Marx lias it from the District of 

 Columbia, Illinois, and Texas. This indicates that it inhabits the entire southern portion of 

 the United States, as far north as the District of Columbia, and westward to (California. I 

 have no specimens from any of the Northern or Jliddle States, except one from Wisconsin, 

 marked doubtful. The coloring and doreal markings vary greatly in specimens under 

 observation, the difference not dependent upon moulting changes, as it shows in mature 

 examples. Colors range from dark yellow, with blackish or brown spots, to white ; pale 

 yellows, pinks, and even greenish tints appear on fresh specimens. The V-shaped circular 

 spots on the dorsum are sometimes distinct, and again disappear, giving place to a triangular 

 folium with interrupted margins. 



No. 36. Epeira Bonsallse, new species. Plate VIII, Fig. 10. 



Female: Total length, 5 mm.; abdomen, 3.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; cephalothorax, 

 2 mm. long, 1.75 mm. wide. 



Cephalothorax: Corselet well rounded, elevated in centre, deep rounded fosse; 

 corselet grooves sufficiently distinct ; cephalic suture deeply marked, separating the head 

 decidedly from the corselet; the head slightly depressed toward the face, where it is not 

 narrowed ; color, yellow to yellowish brown, with a lighter stripe on the margin. Sternum 

 shield shaped, with slight sternal cones, color yellow, slightly oiijthed with long yellow 

 hairs. Maxillse subglobose, decidedly broader than long ; cut square at the tip ; labium 

 triangular, colored as maxillce, and is about half their height. 



Eyes: Ocular quad almost a square; but very slightly narrower in front than behind; 

 MF black, MR amber color; MF separated by about 1.5 their diameter; MR slightly larger 

 and separated by about 1.3 diameter; front row slightly recurved; rear procurved. (Fig. 

 10a.) Side eyes on slight tubercles, propinquate, SF the larger. SF separated from MF by 

 a little more than the area of the latter ; SR from MR by at least 1.3 the area of the latter ; 

 MF from the clypeus margin by about 1.5 their diameter. 



Legs: 1, 2, 4, 3 ; stout, yellow, without decided annuli, armed with strong bristlelike 

 hail's and strong long spines. The palps are similarly armed. 



Abdomen: Subtriangular, with slight basal tubercles, at which point the width about 

 equals the length ; dorsum rounded, and well arched to the distal spinnerets ; color green, 

 with a folium yellow at the margin, green in the centre, except at the median line, which 

 again is yellow. Branching longitudinal lines mark the apical part of the folium, and on 

 either side within the yellow irregular folial margin is a row of four brownish spots, 

 approximated toward the apex in V-shape. The venter is greenish yellow, except the 

 epigynum, which is brown, of which the scapus is rounded, wrinkled, of nearly equal 

 thickness throughout, except at the tip, where it broadens out into a heart shaped spoon 

 of at least twice the width of the base. A minute tonguelike appendage extends from 

 each of the portuliie. 



Distribution: This species, of which I have but one specimen, was received from 

 California. It strongly resembles E. miniata, of which it may possibly be a variety, or 

 variant form. 



No. 37. Epeira Mayo, new species. Plate VIII, Fig. 11. 



1889. Epeira Mayo, Marx in lilt. . . . Catalogue, p. 546 (Keysekling in lilt.). 

 Female: Two specimens, one 5 mm. long, the other 4.5. In general form and char- 

 acter this species resembles closely E. miniata. It appears to me to be a variety thereof 

 after studying the type upon which Count Keyserling in his INISS. notes established the 

 above. The abdomen is more ovate than E. miniata, not so wide relatively across the 

 base, nor so sharply ridged in the dorsal crest. The V-shaped folial spots are wanting, and 

 no distinct folial pattern appears, only irregular, waving, pale lateral lines, which give an 



