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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[June, '20 



Abdomen elongate oval. Femora of legs armed beneath with two 

 widely-separated series of spines, the spines of these series on the anterior 

 legs shorter and more slender than those of the anterior and caudal sur- 

 faces, and the spines of the anterior row more numerous than those of the 

 caudal. Scape of epigynum geniculate at the beginning of the distal 

 "spoon," the proximal division long, in profile a little curved, much as in 

 vertebrata. In ventral view the scape is seen to be narrow, not at all or 

 but weakly clavately expanding, not conspicuously so as it does in the 

 other species, and it does not show the lateral lobes or tubercles at the 

 sides of the main process. See figs, i and 2. 



Fig. I. 



Neoscona salaeria sp nov. 9 

 Ventral view, and Fig. 2. Lateral view of epigynum. (Setae not represented.) 



(^. — In general obviously lighter in color than the female. Carapace 

 fulvous to brown, with a median longitudinal line and a broader band 

 above the lateral border on each side from choclate-colored to black. 

 Sternum as in the female. Legs fulvous or brown, each tibia with a broad 

 black annulus at each end and the metatarsus with a narrow annulus at 

 proximal end and a broader and more distinct one near middle and at 

 distal end, of which commonly only the distal one is distinct. Tarsi 

 darker distally. Legs darkening and the annulations becoming more 

 obscure in older specimens, and brighter and more strongly marked in 

 newly-molted ones. Abdomen with the same coloration as in the female 

 but the yellow pattern typically more strongly developed. Often the 

 light markings of the dorsum of the abdomen are bright red in whole or 

 in part instead of yellow. The yellow spots on the venter often connected 

 along each side. 



