332 On Spiders from the Bahama Islands. 
Argyroepetra argyra (Walck.) (sec. Simon, St. Vincent). 
Aryyroepeira argyra (Walck.), Ins. Apt. ii. p. 219. 
A single adult female, Nassau. 
This example is identical with Simon’s named specimens 
from St. Vincent. 
Uloborus geniculatus, Oliver. 
Uloborus geniculatus, Oliver, Eneyel. Méthod. ii. p. 214. 
A single adult female. This species is found all over the 
tropical world, occurring in abundance in the windows of 
outhouses, where the delicate pink many-cornered cocoons 
may be seen hanging in the web. 
Nassau. 
Uloborus americanus, Walck. 
Uloborus americanus, Walck. Ins, Apt. ii. p. 229. 
This species may instantly be distinguished from the above 
by the tuft of hairs on each side of tibia i. near the apex. 
A single adult female from Nassau. 
Alcimosphenus licinus, Simon. (PI. VII. fig. 7.) 
Alcimosphenus licinus, Simon, Hist. Nat. Ay. ii. t. 1. p. 931, and P.Z.S. 
Noy. 16, 1897, p. 871. 
Several adult females of this fine spider were obtained at 
Nassau. The figure on the Plate is taken from one of the 
syntypes of the form originally described by Simon from 
St. Vincent. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. 
Fig. 1. Nephila clavipes (Linn.), 2. 1a, Carapace in profile ; 1b, Abdo- 
men, showing pattern. 
Fig. 2. Ditto, 3. 
Fig. 3. Ditto, g. Palpus. 
Fig. 4, Ditto, $. Palpal bulb and spine. 
Fig. 5. Nephila cornuta (Pallas), @. Leg i. 5a. Carapace in profile. 
Tig. 6. Lyroscelus Bonhotet, sp.n., $. Trochanter of male palpus from 
the outside. Ga. Bulb of palpus. 
Tig. 7. Alcimosphenus licinus, Simon, 2. 
Fig. 8. Browne, Hist. Jam. t. xliv. fig. 5. 
Fig. 9. Sloane, Voy. Jam, t. 235. fig. 4. 
Tg. 10. Gasteracantha Kochii, Butler.—Santarem, 
fg. 11. Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linn.) ?>—Bahamas. 
dng. 12. Gasteracantha Canestrinii, O. P. Cambr,—Antigua, 
