J. H. Emerton — IVew England Epeiridce. 323 



Singa maculata, new. 



Plate XXXVII, figure 18. 



Length 3""". The head is as high as wide, narrowed a little 

 around the eyes. The front middle eyes project forward over the 

 mandibles in both sexes. The front half of the head is black, the 

 rest of the cephalothorax and legs oi-ange. The abdomen in my 

 specimens is orange with indistinct blackish markings across the 

 hinder part, but the pattern is probably variable as in other species. 

 Beneath, the colors are pale Ijrown and orange. The epigynum 

 resembles that of S. variabilis. 



Male and female. New Haven, Conn., June 24. 



Zilla. 



These spiders resemble Steatoda. The abdomen is large oval and 

 smooth and the legs short. The head is narrow and the lateral eyes 

 as near the middle pairs as these are to each other. The colors are 

 dull, black, gray and white. 



The webs have a segment without cross lines in which a stout 

 thread I'uns from the center to the nest. Insects caught in the web 

 are rolled up in silk, attached to the spinnerets and carried along the 

 thread to the nest. Plate xl, fig. 2. 



Zilla montana c. Koch. 



Plate XXX [V, figure 1-4. Plate XXXVII, figures 22. 23, 26, 28. 



Length of female 6 or 7""". Cephalothorax yellowish white with 

 dark edges and an indistinct gray stripe in the middle with radiat- 

 ing branches to the legs and side eyes. The legs are the same color 

 with dark rings at the end of each joint and less distinct rings in the 

 middle of each joint. The abdomen is oval and flat above like that 

 of Steatoda and the markings resemble those of Steatoda marmorata. 

 The folium is black at the edges but nearly white in the middle 

 where there is a median dark line or row of spots. On the front end 

 of the abdomen is a white spot surrounded by black which indents 

 the sides and front end. The folium is broken near the hinder end 

 as in Steatoda viannorata. The sternum is dark with a middle yel- 

 low stripe. The under side of the abdomen has a black stripe in the 

 middle with a yellow stripe on each side. The male has longer legs 

 with longer and darker spines but otherwise resembles the female. 



