Spiders from the Bahama Islanda. 



G. pallida, >rcCook, Au.t>r. Spid. iii. p. 20{>, pi. xiv. fij:. 8. — California. 

 G. prtciosa, ^fc('()ol^, Anier. Spid. iii. p. :211, jil.xiv. (\^.l. — Caliluriiia. 



The species pallida and preciosa are in all |)robability 

 ick'Titical, and may be evenfiiallv regarded as subs[)ecie3 

 of Liniianis's species from t^t. Thomas. I have no doubt, 

 however, that quadn'dens, C. K., is identical witli tetracantha. 

 Two other torms — one from St. Vincent, with carapace, legs, 

 sternum, and ventral area entirely black; the other from 

 Beguia, Canonan and Union Islands, witii carapace and legs 

 bright orange-red, sternum and ventral area black, the latter 

 spotted with yellow — may be added to the varieties of this 

 species. The form with the red carapace is obviously the 

 typical one, though I have no material from the Island of 

 St. Thomas, for Linmeus's description runs : — "Cap. rufum, 

 pedes sanguinei." 



The species as recognized above has been recorded from 

 the Antilles, St. Thomas; St. Vincent (Simon) ; Beguia; 

 Canonan and Union Islands ; California, Mohave Desert 

 {Marx). 



Oasteracantha cancriformis (Linn.). (PI. VII. fig. 11.) 



Aranea cnrtcrifotmis, Limi. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1037. no. 4G (misprinted 45). 



— Jamaica. 

 Ar. htxiuantha, Fabr. Mantissa Insectorum, p. .344. no. 29. 

 Ar. he.iacantha, Fabr. Ent. Syst. t. ii. p. 417. no. 39. — Jamaica. 

 Abbott, Spiders of Georgia, fig-. 118. — Georfrfa. 

 Epeira cancer, Hentz, Sp. U. S. p. 12<), pi. xiv. fig. 13. — Florida. 

 Flectana cancriformis, AVlk. Ins. Apt. ii. p. Ljl. 

 P. ellipsoides, ^^'lk. — Georgia. 



Gasteracant/ia picra, C. K., Die Arach. xi. p. 61, fig. 882. — Brazil. 

 G. velitaris, C. K., op. cit. iv. p. 33, fig. 2G9.— Brazil. 

 G. rubiginosa, C. K., op. cit. xi. p. oo, fig. 878. — Haiti. 

 G. atlantica, Wlk. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 167.— Haiti. 

 G. comhata, Mart. (sec. Walck.). 

 G. calUda, O.y. Cambr. P. Z. S., March 1879, p. 284, pi. xxvi. 



fig. 7. — Trinidad. 

 G. vittata, Thor. — California. 

 G. cancriformis, McCook, Amer. Sp. iii. p. 211, pi. xiv. tig. 9. — 



United States. 



The type of A. cancriformis, Linn., is the figure in Sloane's 

 'Jamaica,' ii. p. 197, t. 235. fig. 4. Linnaeus also quotes 

 Browne, Ili.st. Jamaica, p. 41i>, t. .\liv. fig. 5. (These figures 

 have been rejiroduced in our PI. VI I. figs. 9 & 8.) 



The type of A. hexacantha, Fabr., is the figure in Browne's 

 Hist. Jamaica, t. xliv. fig. 5. Fabricius does not mention 

 " Dom. Banks " in either of the places where he quotes and 

 describes Ar. hexacantha; and although there is a specimen 

 labelled with this name as " type " in Coll. P)anks Brit. Mu.s., 

 it cannot be accepted as the type of Fabricius's species. 



