20  Hentzs Descriptions of the 
35. EPEIRA HEPTAGON. 
Plate III. Figs. 5, 6. 
Description. Blackish ; abdomen with an angular line on 
each side near the base, and several small irregular spots 
white or yellowish; seven or nine projections placed round 
the edge, the two interior ones largest, producing in their 
intervals seven or nine sides; two angular white spots under- 
neath; male of a much lighter color, but with the same 
general markings. 
Observations. This was first found in the clay tube of a 
Seurx cyanea, along with Errima alba and thirty-eight 
specimens of Tueripion lineatum. It makes a perpendic- 
ular web, and drops from it when threatened with the slight- 
est danger. | 
Habitat. North Carolina, Alabama. 
36. EPEIRA ALBA. 
Plate III. Fig. 7. 
Description. Cream white; abdomen witha tuberculated 
projection each side, anteriorly, a blackish spot between these, 
and two dots on the dise; legs with pale blackish rings. 
Observations. Found in the clay nest of Senex cyanea. 
It must be very rare. 
Habitat. North Carolina. 
37. EPEIRA CORNIGERA. 
Plate III. Fig. 8. 
Description. Yellowish; cephalothorax varied with yel- 
low and black, with a bifurcated horn on each side, and many 
rounded tubercles; abdomen with two tubercles, one on each 
side anteriorly, and about eight impressed dots on the disc ; 
feet deep yellow, two anterior pair sometimes annulated with 
piceous. A small species. 
Observations. This very singular little spider obstinately 
holds its legs folded up as represented, in the manner of some 
coleopterous insects. 
Habitat. Alabama. June, July. 
