362 Alexander Petrünkevitch, 



specific characters of Bugesiella hentzi since the identification is not 

 a simple matter and a correct description is lacking. Some of the 

 figures g-iven by McCook in his book on American spiders certainly 

 represent some other species or eise they are badly drawn. He 

 shows a specimen with long and ratlier tliin legs, whereas all my 

 specimens are with rather short and heavy legs. The sexual dimor- 

 phism is also so great that one could not recognize the same species 

 in the male and female by the appearance alone. 



Description of the species. 



Bugesiella is a genus belonging to the subfamily Eurypelmateae. 

 Eugene Simon gives the following definition of this genus in his 

 great work, "Histoire Naturelle des Araignees": 



'^Coxa pediim primi paris anfice, et spura et infra suturam, setis 

 brevibus rigidis et spiniformibus echinata" (p. 935). 



On another page he writes: "Dans le genre Bugesiella la hauche 

 de la premiere patte est garnie d'epines ou de crins spiniformes et 

 la face correspondante de la patte-mächoire olfre aussi quelques 

 petites epines isolees, disposition rappelant beaucoup celle que j'ai 

 decrite dans le genre Adranochelia et pouvent etre consideree comme 

 le rudiment d'an organe stridulatoire" (p. 933). 



The genus contains only two species, B. crinita Pocock from 

 Mexico and B. hentsi from the United States. 

 Duffesiella hetitzi (Girakd) 



= Mtjgale lientsi Gieard, in : Maect's Report Red River, Loui- 

 siana, 1854, p. 262, tab. 16, fig. 1—3. 

 = Eurypelma mordax Äusserer, in: Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 1871, Vol. 21, p. 211, tab. 1, fig. 14. 

 ? =r: Eunjpelma hentzi McCook, American Spiders, 1889, Vol. 1, 



p. 327, fig. 313. 

 ? = £■. hentsi McCook, ibid., 1890, Vol. 2, tab. 5, fig. 1. 

 ? = E. hentsi McCook, ibid., p. 321, fig. 303, 304. 

 = E. hentzi Banks, in : Entomol. News, Philadelphia 1892, Vol. 3, 



p. 147. 

 = E. hentzi D. H. Simon, in: Hist. Nat. Ar., 1903, Vol. 2, 



p. 937. 

 Hab. U. S. A., Louisiana, Texas (? Arizona, ? Kansas). 



