J. H. Emerton — Neio England Epeiridce. 305 



Epeira patagiata (Clerck) Thor., Blk., Menge. 

 Ep. fornwsa Keys., Zool. Botan. Gesellsch., Wien. 1865. 

 Ep. liilaris Camb., from Newfoundland, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, Edinburgh, 1881. 



Pl.ite XXXIIT, figures 3, 3a, 3&, 3c. Pl.\te XXXV, figure 11. 



Female, from Salem, 9'^"" long; 1st leg, 15"'"\ Female, from Mt. 

 Washington, 11"""; 1st leg, 14""". Female, from Beverly, 10'"'" 

 long; 1st leg, 15""". 



This spider is slightly smaller than sclopetaria and like that spe- 

 cies varies greatly in size and the length of the legs. The abdomen 

 is nearly round, as in sclopetaria, but slightly flatter on the back. 

 The colors are lighter tlian those of sclopetaria and the light mark- 

 ings have a reddish color, especially in alcohol, in place of the dull 

 yellow of sc/opetaria. The cephalothorax is light brownish yellow 

 with light hairs. The legs are ringed with dark and light, as in 

 sclopetarla, but the dark parts are brighter reddish brown. The 

 abdomen is marked with various shades of brown. Tlie folium has 

 the edges plainly marked and not broken on the second segment 

 as in iiclopetdria. The color of the folium is usually broken by 

 lighter transverse bands and spots. The light bands on the second 

 segment are often very large and united with the light markings on 

 the first segment while behind they are separated by a sharp line 

 from the darker part of the folium. Some dark specimens have the 

 folium of a uniform dark brown color, broken only by irregular small 

 light spots. Figs. 3, 3a, 3&, 3c. 



This species is abundant in the White Mountains and the Adiron- 

 dacks where it lives on plants away from houses. In Montreal, 

 Canada; Albany, New York; Eastport and Portland, Me.; Ithaca, 

 N. Y., Cornell University Collection ; and in eastern Massachusetts 

 it is a common house and fence spider, and is also found on bushes. 

 I have not found it in several seasons' collecting at New Haven, 

 Conn., nor on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, nor is it among a large 

 lot of house Epeira from Noank, Conn. Mr. McCook, in Philadel- 

 phia, and Mr. Mai'x, of Washington, have not found it in their 

 southern collecting, so that it is probably not common south of Mas- 

 sachusetts and New York. It is a common European species, 



Epeira strix Hentz. 



Ep. apuclisa Giebel, Illinois spiders, Zeitschrift fur Gesammten Naturwiss., 1869. 



Probably E. affinis Blk., from Canada. Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. xvii. 

 Plate XXXIII, figure 5. Plate XXXV, figure 12. 

 10""" long; 1st leg, 14""". 

 This species usually differs considerably in its general appearance 



