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Family EPEIRID^. 



GASTERACANTHA INSULANA Thorell. 



Thorell, Nya Exotiska Epeirider ; Ofv. K, Vet. Akad. Forh., p. 302 

 (1859). 



Twenty-seven specimens from Albemarle, January and June ; 

 Charles, May ; Chatham, May ; James, April ; and Narboro, Janu- 

 ary. Described from the Galapagos. Recorded by both Butler and 

 Marx. It belongs to a group of species very common throughout the 

 warmer parts of America. Those from Chatham Island have the 

 dorsum mostly black, with two rather small spots on anterior half ; in 

 the other specimens these spots cover most of the anterior part of the 

 dorsum. 



ARGIOPE ARGENT ATA (Fabricius). 



Aranea argentata Fabricius, Entom. System., 11, p. 414 (1793). 

 Argiopes argentata C. Koch, Die Arach., v, p. 38 (1839). 



Sixty -four specimens from Albemarle, May ; Charles, May ; James, 

 April ; Narboro, April ; Hood, May ; Bindloe, June ; Harrington, 

 May ; and Indefatigable, May. 



Very common throughout tropical and subtropical America. 



EPEIRA OAXENSIS Keyserling. 



Keyserling, Sitzungsber. d. Isis, Dresden, p. 121 (1863). 



Keyserling, Die Spinn. Amer., Epeiridae, p. 238 (1893). 



E. cooksonii Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 76 (1877). 



E. vertebrata McCooK, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 196 (1888). 



One hundred and nine specimens from Albemarle, March ; Charles, 

 May ; Chatham, May ; James, April ; Hood, May ; Indefatigable 

 (many), April; Harrington, May, and Duncan, May. 



E. cooksonii was described from the Galapagos ; E. vertebrata^ 

 from California, and later (McCook, Amer. Spid., vol. Ill, p. 152), 

 recorded from the Galapagos. Marx has called attention to the fact 

 that the two are one species, and in manuscript also refers them to E. 

 oaxensis^ with which I fully concur ; this last species was described, 

 as its names indicates, from Mexico. 



EPEIRA LABYRINTHEA Hentz. 

 Hentz, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., v, p. 471 (1847). 



Eighty-seven specimens from Albemarle, Charles, Chatham, James, 

 Hood (many), Narboro, Tower, Indefatigable, Harrington, Bindloe 

 and Abingdon Islands, in February, March, April, May and June. 

 Widely distributed throughout North and some parts of South Amer- 

 ica. Dr. Marx had, in manuscript, proposed to consider this a dis- 



