326 Bullelin Americnn Museum of Nulurdl JliManj. [Vol. XXIX, 



Araneus zilloides (Banks). 



Epcira zilloides Banks, Proc. Califurnia Acad. Sc, 1898, Vol. I, p. 255, pi. 



XV, f. 2. 

 A. z. F. Cambridge, Biol. Ccntr. Amer., 1904, Vol. II, p. 519. 



Hab. — Mexico: Tepic. 



Genus Argiope Audouin, 1827. 

 Typus, A. lohata Pallas. 



Argiope argentata (Fabricius). 



Aranea argentata Fabririus, Entom. Syst., 1775, Vol. II, p. 414, No. 27. 

 Aranca mammala De Geer, Mem., 1778, Vol. VII, p. 318, pi. xxxviii, f. 5. 



Olivier, Encycl. Method., 1791, p. 302, No. 14. 

 Aranea valde elegans Marcgrave, Hist. Nat. Bres., 17 (?) p. 248. 

 Epeira mammata Walckenajr, Tabl. Aran., 1805, p. 56, No. 2. 

 Epeira argentata id., Ins. Apt., 1837, Vol. II, p. 115, pi. xviii, f. 3. 

 Epeira amictoria id. ibid., p. 119. 



A.a.C. Koch, Die Arachniden, 1839, Vol. V, p. 38, pi. cliv, f. 360. 

 Argyopes feneslrinus id. ibid., 1839, Vol. V, p. 39, pi. civ, f. 361. 

 A. a. Taczanowski, Horse Soc. Entom. Ross., 1872, Vol. IX, p. 261. 

 Argyopes maronicus id. ibid., p. 261. 

 Argyopes siibtilis id. ibid., p. 262. 



A. a. Bertkau, Verzeichniss der . . . Brasil. Ar., 1880, p. 93, pi. ii, f. 34. 

 A. a. Holmberg, General Roca, Informe official, 1881, p. 121, pi. iii, f. 1. 

 A. a. McCook, American Spiders, 1893, Vol. Ill, p. 220, pi. xvi, ff. 1, 2. 

 A. a. Simon, Hist. Nat. Ar., 1895, Vol. I, p. 764, f. 840. 

 A. a. id., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 873. 

 A. a. F. Cambridge, Biol. Centr. Amer., 1903, Vol. II, p. 450, pi. xlii,ff. 25, 26. 



Hab. — Tropical and subtropical regions of the western continent, including 

 all islands of these regions, and extending south to Patagonia and north into the 

 southern United States. 



Argiope aurantia Lucas, Ann. Soc. Entom. France, 1833, Vol. II, p. 87, pi. v, f. 1. 

 Nephila vestita C. Koch, Die Arachniden, 1839, Vol. V, p. 35, pi. cliii, f. 358. 

 Epeira aurantia Lucas, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ar. Myr., 1840, p. 421. 

 Epeira cophinaria Walckenser, Ins. Apt., 1842, Vol. II, p. 109. 

 Epeira ambitoria id. ibid., p. 112. 

 Epeira riparia Hentz, Journ. Boston Soc. N. H., 1847, Vol. V, p. 468. pi. xxx, 



f. 5. (Reprint.) Spiders U. S., p. 106, pi. xii, f. 5. 

 Epeira sutrix id. ibid., p. 478, pi. xxxi, f. 23. (Reprint.) Spiders U. S., p. 



120, pi. xiii, f. 23. 

 Argiope riparia McCook, Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, 1882, p. 256. 

 Argiope riparia Emerton, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sc, 1885, 'N'ol. VI, p. 



329, pi. xxxiv, f. 19; pi. xxxviii, ff. 13, 14, 19. 

 Argiope multiconcha Treat, American Natural., 1887, Vol. XXI, p. 1122. 

 Argiope cophinaria McCook, American Spiders, 1893, Vol. Ill, p. 217, pi. xv, 



ff. 1-6; pi. xvi, ff. 5, 6. 

 Argiope personata Cambridge, Biol. Ccntr. Amer., 1893, Vol. I, p. 110, pi. 



xiv, f. 14. 



