802 JiiiUetin American Museum of Natural History. [Xol. XXIX, 



Epeira umrmorat McCook, American Spiders, 1893, Vol. Ill, p. 14:'), ])1. i, 



ff. 1, 2; pi. ii, IT. 1, 2; i)l. iii, IT. 7, 8. 

 Epeira marmorea Emerton, Common Spiders, 1902, p. 169, ff. 398, 399. 



//ab.— U. S. A.: all States; Canada; ' (Europe). 



Araneus maurus (Hentz). 



Epeira maura Hentz, Joui-n. Boston Soc. N. H., 1847, Vol. V, p. 474, pi. xxxi, 



f. 8. (Reprint.) Spiders U. S., p. 115, pi. xiii, f. 8. 

 Singn maura Kej-serling, \'erh. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, 1884, Vol. XXXI\', p. 



527, pi. xiii, f. 26. 

 Singa maura id., Spinnen Amerikas, Epeiridae, 1893, p. 283, pi. xiv, f. 208. 



^' McCook, American Spiders, 1893, Vol. Ill, p. 234, pi. xix, f. 8. 

 Argyroepeira maura Banks, Proc. California Acad. Sc, 1898, \o\. I, p. 257. 

 (Banks gives no description of his specimen, nor is there any evidence that 

 this species belongs to the genus Argyroepeira.) 

 Hab.— i:. S. A.: Ky., Ala., D. C; Mexico: Baja California. 



Araneus melanocephalus (Taczanowski) . 



Linyphia melanocephala Taczanowski, HoriE Soc. Entom. Ross., 1875, Vol. X, 



p. 15. 

 Zilla melatioccphahi Keyserling, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, Vol. XXX, 



p. 552, pi. x\i, f. 4. 

 Zilla mehninccphuhi itl., Spinnen Amerikas, Epeirida>, 1893, p. 302, pi. xv, f. 



223. 

 A. m. Simon, Boll. .Maseu Torino, 1897, Vol. XII, Xo. 270, p. 2. 



Hah. — Guiana: Cayenne; ParaguaJ^ 



Araneus meridionalis {Keyserling). 



MaJiadeva meridionalis Keyserling, Spinnen Amerikas, Epeiridae, 1892, p. 74, 

 ])1. iii, f. 57. (Nee Epeira meridionalis Kej'serling, which is synonymous 

 with Epeira auda.t Blackwall. This species is a Verrucosa.) 

 Hab. — Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro. 



Araneus meropes [Keyserling). 



Epeira meropes Keyserling, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. ^^'ie^, 1865, ^'ol. XIV, p. 



825, pi. xix, ff. 6, 7. 

 Epeira meropes id., Spinnen Amerikas, Epeirida^, 1892, p. 139, pi. vii, f. 102. 



Hab. — Colombia. 



Araneus messalina (Van Hassell). 



Epeira messalina Van Hasselt, Tijdschr. f. Entom., 1888, Vol. XXXI, p. 181, 



pi. vi, ff. 1, 2. 

 A. m. Simon, Hist. Xat. Ar., 1895, Vol. I, p. 803. 



Hah. — Surinam. 



Araneus metuens nam. nov. 



Singa nia.sta Banks, Proc. California Acad. Sc, 1898, \o\. I, p. 256, pi. xv, f. 3 

 {tnwsta preoccupied by Keyserling in 1892). 



Hah. — Mexico: Tepic. 



