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Abdomen large, short and broad ; anteriorly bigli, with a hump at 

 each anterior corner above, the two humps widely separated and the 

 surface between them complanate. 



Epigynum large and strongly chitinous, black, limited on each 

 side by a thick vertical plate. Scape arising at anterior edge and 

 then curving ventrad and caudad far behind furrow, the curving 

 basal part thinner and somewhat narrower than the straight distal 

 part. 



Anterior median eyes much exceeding the posterior median in size. 

 Area of median eyes a little wider in front than long. 



Length, 25 mm.; cephalothorax, 10.5 mm.; width, 8.8 mm.; tibia 

 and patella I, 13 mm. ; tibia and patella III, 11 mm. 



Locality. — China: Soochow (N. Gist Gee). Two females. 



Type.—C^t. No. 879, U.S.N.M. 



ARANEA QUADRATA (Clerck). 



Aranens quadratus Clerck, Sv. Spindl., 1757, p. 27. pi. 1. fig. 3. 

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



ARANEA SERICATA (Clerck). 



Araneus sencatus (Clerck), Aran. Svec, 1757, p. 40, pi. 2, fig. 1. 

 Araneus sclopetarius (Clerck), Aran. Svec, 1757, p. 43, pi. 2, fig. 3. 



Locality. — China: Soochow. One female. 



CHINESTELA, new genus. 



A genus of the group Mangoreae. Resembling the American genera 

 Acacesia and Eustala in having the anterior coxae of the male armed 

 at distal end with a stout, chitinous tooth. Anterior median eyes 

 larger than the posterior medians and much farther apart, the area 

 of median eyes a little oblique, not crinite. Lateral eyes on each side 

 connate. The anterior median eyes much farther from the laterals 

 than from each other. Tibia I of male strongly spined, the spines 

 all long; tibia II, in genotype, curved, not at all swollen, with more 

 numerous, crowded, shorter spines along anteromesal edge and some 

 other longer and stouter spines. Patella of male palpus armed above 

 at distal end with two long spines, the tibia with a stout, chitinous 

 apophysis. Abdomen only moderately elongate, broader anteriorly. 



Genotype. — Chinestela gisti. new species. 



CHINESTELA GISTI, new species. 



Plate 5, fig. 37. 



Male. — Dorsal line of carapace straight and horizontal, or nearly 

 so. Carapace dilute brown, with a more deeply colored band along 



