Spiders from the Bahama Islands. 325 
iv. 20 millim.; protarsus i, 13 millim.; protarsus iv. 
18 millim. 
Tibia of pedipalp with a low convex tubercle on the outer 
side towards the apex. Bulb short, piriform, aculeate, its 
apex (from in front) only slightly directed outwards. 
Tibia of leg i. with two stout spurs at apex, the outer long 
and strongly curved upward and inward, with a stout coales- 
cent spine at its apex on the inner side. ‘The inner spur 
much shorter, broad, with a stout almost coalescent spine on 
its inner side. 
Two adult males of this fine species were taken at Nassau 
in the Bahamas by Mr. J. L. Bonhote. The position of the 
stridulating-spines is a new one, for although the form of the 
spines is similar to that in Citharoscelus, Poc., yet they occur 
on different segments of the two appendages, namely, in the 
latter on the coxa, in the former on the trochanter. Cutharo- 
scelus, moreover, belongs to a different group, having the 
protarsus 1. scopulate only halfway to the base. 
Fam. Filistatide. 
Filistata hibernalis, Hentz. 
Adults of both sexes of this species, which is abundant 
in other islands of the Antilles as well as in North, Central, 
and South America, were taken in the Bahamas. 
Fam. Heteropodide. 
Heteropoda venatoria (Linn.). 
Two very richly coloured adult males from Nassau. 
Fam, Argyopida. 
Nephila clavipes (Linn.). (Pl. VII. figs. 1-4.) 
Two adult females and an adult male were taken by 
Mr. Bonhote at Nassau of a species of Wephila which is most 
probably identical with that figured in Browne’s ‘ History of 
Jamaica.” This figure is the type of Araneus clavipes of 
Linneus, which has usually been distinguished from JV, cor- 
nuta (Pallas) (Pl. VII. figs. 5, 5a) by the absence of the two 
small horns on the carapace. 
Another character distinguishing various examples of 
Nephila lies in the tufts of hair on the legs. Some have 
them very distinct and large on the tibie and femora of legs 
i, and ii. and the tibia of iti. and iv., while in others they are 
