12 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
rangement of the eyes, but it is not caudate and it lacks the 
single stout spine on the apex of femur II. It agrees with 
Cyrtognatha Keyserling (1881), in the position of the lateral 
eyes and the shape of the labium. Simon in his key in Hist. 
nat. araignées, 1894, Vol. I, p. 723, wrongly quotes Keyserling 
in the shape of the labium. 
Antigua. Two males and three females. 
Leucauge hortorum (Hentz) 
1847. Epewa hortorum Hentz, Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 5, p. 
477, pl. 31, fig. 19; reprint, 1875, p. 118, pl. 13, fig. 19: 
1884. <Argyroepeira hortorwm Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. 6, p. 
332, pl. 37, figs. 29-32. 
Antigua. Found from Canada to northern South America. 
Argiope argentata (Fabricius) 
1775. Aranea argentata Fabricius, Syst. Entom., p. 433. 
1839. Argiope fenestrinus Koch, Die Arach., Vol. 5, p. 39, pl. 155, fig. 
361. 
1893. <Argiope argentata McCook, American Spiders, Vol. 3, p. 220, pl. 
16, figs. 1-2. 
Antigua. <A tropical and subtropical spider of the western 
continent from North Carolina south to Patagonia. 
Argiope trifasciata (Forskal) ; 
1775. Aranea trifasciata Forskal, Dese. Anim., p. 86. 
1847. Epevra fasciata Hentz, Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 5, p. 
468, pl. 30, fig. 8; reprint 1875, p. 107, pl. 12, fig. 8. 
1884. <Argiope transversa Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. 6, p. 330, 
pl. 34, fig. 20, pl. 38, figs. 15-18. 
Antigua. A common spider from Canada to Chili. 
Eustala prompta (Hentz) 
1847. Epeira prompta Hentz, Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 5, p. 
472, pl. 31, fig. 4; reprint 1875, p. 112, pl. 13, fig. 4. 
1884. Epeira parvula Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. 6, p. 317, pl. 
34, fig. 12, pl. 37, figs 1-2. 
Antigua; Barbados. A common spider in the United States 
and West Indies. 
