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a large yellowish or reddish spot ; the sides have each four oblique, 
yellowish, sometimes geminated bands, of which one, commencing 
above the petiolum and curved forwards and downwards, is the 
longest and forms with the corresponding one of the other side, when 
seen from above, a very large “\, open at the apex ; under this band 
is another smaller, almost longitudinal, and behind it two bands, 
tapering at the ends; but these markings are often more or less 
obliterated *. 
LATHRODECTUS CURACAVIENSIS, Miill. 
$ ad. Cephalothorace fusco-testaceo, vitta media et marginibus 
infuscatis, pedibus fusco-testaceis, apice internodiorum plus 
minus late nigricantibus, cephalothorace quam tibia primi paris 
circiter dimidio breviore ; abdomine fusco, pictura flava nigro- 
marginata : secundum dorsum vitta media longa, supra anum 
in maculam rufescenti-flavam dilatata, in lateribus fasciis trinis 
obliquis ; prima earum longa est, foras et retro curvata, et sub 
ea vitta parva conspicitur ; relique due magis recte sunt ; par 
primum harum fasciarum desuperne inspectum /\ magnum 
format ; venter plaga magna flavescente antice truncata im 
medio leviter constricta notatus est. 
Long. circa 33 millim. 
1776. Aranea curacaviensis, Mill. Linn. Vollstand. Natursyst. 
Suppl.- u. Reg.-Band, p. 342 (= 9). 
l8—. Theridion curassavicum, Héring, conf. Ozanam, Etude s. le 
venin des Arachn. p. 29. 
1860. Latrodectus malmignattus, var. tropica, Vau Hass. Stud. 
over d. z. g. Curagaosche Oranje-Spin, in Tijdschr. voor Entom. iu. 
p- 62, pl. 5. figs. 1-6 (= 9). 
1873. Lathrodectus curacaviensis, Thor. Rem. on Syn. p. 511 
c—?)- 
Mas. Cephalothorax 13 millim. longus, brevior quam tibia primi 
et quarti paris, tibiam cum dimidia patella secundi paris lon- 
gitudine circiter equans, paullo longior quam latior, forma in 
hoe genere solita, fovea ordinaria centrali pone medium locata, 
magna et profunda, impressionibus cephalicis tribusque sulcis 
radiantibus utrinque in parte thoracica profundis quoque ; tes- 
taceo-fuscus, vitta media longitudinali fuliginea, marginibusque 
late subinfuscatis. Clypei altitudo evidenter, pene dimidio, 
major quam longitudo aree oculorum mediorum. Sternum 
ovato-triangulum, antice late truncatum, obscurius fuscum, vitta 
media longitudinali subtestacea. Oculorum series antica pro- 
curva, ambe series desuperne vise recurve, extremitatibus non 
divaricantibus, sed paullo appropinquantibus: spatium inter 
oculos laterales paullo minus est quam spatium inter oculos 
medios anticos et posticos, et oculi lateralis diametrum equat. 
* The female of Z. curacaviensis has been carefully described and figured by 
Van Hasselt (/oc. infra cit.) ; the male, on the contrary, is still unknown, and a 
short description of a male example which Dr. Van Hasselt has kindly sent me 
will therefore probably not be considered out of place here. 
