AiiT. 13. NEW AMERICAN AND CHINESE SPIDERS CHAMBERLIN. 15 



Length, 4.2 mm.; tibia and patella I, 5,5 m. ; tibia and patella 

 IV, 3.8 mm. 



Locality. — China: Soochow (N. Gist Gee). One female. 

 Type.— Cat. No. 873, U.S.N.M. 



NESTICUS SUGGERENS, new species. 



Plate 4, figs. 29-31. 



Cephalothorax and appendages yellowish, the sternum and femora 

 of legs in particular often a little dusky. Abdomen grey or bluish 

 grey, Avith an indistinct median paler mark above. 



Carapace broad and low, the pars thoracica rising above the level 

 of the head, the form being much like that of the European .V. cel- 

 lulamis Clerck. 



Anterior row of e^^es straight; the medians much smaller than the 

 laterals; eyes equidistant, separated by the radius of a median eye, 

 or less. Posterior row of eyes straight; the eyes subequal; median 

 eyes about their diameter apart, nearer to the laterals. 



Abdomen of the male subelliptic in outline when viewed from the 

 side, that of the female somev»'hat higher. 



Epigynum (pi, 4, fig. 30). 



Palpus of male (pi. 4, fig. 31). 



Length of male (type), 2.24 mm.; cephalothorax, 1.12; tibia and 

 patella I, 2 mm, ; tibia and patella IV, 1.7 mm. 



Locality. — ^Louisiana: Shrewsbury. February 5, 1921. One male, 

 one female. 



Type.— Cat. No. 665, M.C.Z. 



NEPHILA CLAVATA L. Koch. 



Xephila clavata L. Koch, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877, vol. 27, p. 741, 

 pi. 15, fig. 4. 



Locality. — China: Soochow (N. Gist Gee). Eight specimens. 



ARGIOPE AMOENA L. Koch. 



Arglope ainoena L. Koch, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877, vol. 27, p. 735, 

 pi. 15, fig. 1. 



Locality. — China : Soochow, Several males and females, of which 

 the latter are all immature. 



Mr. Gee makes the following comments on the coloration in life : 

 " Upper part of abdomen with three transverse lines of black and two 

 broad ones of yellow. In the middle two large red spots back of 

 which a black one and then yellow. The posterior region of abdomen 

 is black with a dark red band in middle. Two rows of yellow dots, 

 four in each. Under surface of abdomen black along middle with 

 three pairs of yellow dots. A large yellow stripe on each side of 



