184 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [April, 



Epeira hispida Koch. 



Two dry males. Tibia I curved at base, slender; tibia II thick- 

 ened at end and very spinose, the metatarsus curved at the base. 

 The body and legs with yellowish hair, tibia I dark at base -and on 

 middle. 

 Epeira ravilla Koch. 



One dry female, the abdomen shrunken and partly destroyed. 

 Cephalothorax densely long white-haired. Femora I and II black, 

 other joints reddish-brown to yellowish, dark on tips of tibia I; erect 

 spines on femur I not as long as thickness of the joint; femur III 

 shows above a pale line margined with dark ; all legs with much 

 white hair. A large species. 

 Gasteracantlia pallida Koch. 



Not in the Berlin Museum. 



Phidippus carolinus Koch. 



A large species, female, densely white-haired. Mandibles green, 

 palpi and clypeus with very long white hair; cephalothorax mostly 

 white-haired; legs not plainly banded, but leg T has black hair at 

 the apex of the tibia, the rest of the fringe is white; hind tibia very 

 plainly black at tip; venter with a narrow, black, median stripe, 

 but elsewhere densely white.-haired ; above the abdomen is red each 

 side behind, separated by black, and a white spot in front. 



Phidippus asinarius Koch. 



One female; this is plainly P. mystaceus Hentz; the white spots 

 on cephalothorax are plain, the mandibles red-brown, venter all 

 white-haired. 

 Phidippus testaceus Koch. 



Two specimens, one badly rubbed and may not be the same as the 

 other, this latter is probably P. podagrosus {multiformis). Mandibles 

 greenish, clypeus with yellowish hair, tips of patellae and tibiae dark; 

 venter with pale median stripe, dark each side of this, and then the 

 outer sides pale. 

 Phidippus smaragdifer Koch. 



Two from New Orleans; are audax, not variegatus. The label 

 says '^variegatus Lucas," so all labels were probably written some 

 time after Koch described the species. 

 Phidippus lunulatus Koch. 



A male ; the cephalothorax shows a white band coming up on each 

 side ; mandibles green ; leg I with long black fringe on tibia, long 

 white hair on inner side of patella, and long white hair on bases of 



