54 HENTZ ON A NEW SPECIES 



this spider, as if the work was unknown to the natu- 

 ralists in this country. 



It belongs to the genus Teger.eriaof Walckenaer, 

 ant! to that of spiders, properly so called, of Latreille. 

 Its characters are : eight eyes, forming two parallel 

 lines, the upper being curved and longer. Lip wider 

 in the middle, cut straight at its extremity. Max- 

 illae inserted upright, not bent on the lip. Corselet 

 nearly as large as the abdomen. The first pair of 

 legs the longest, the fourth next, then the second, 

 and the third the shortest. Manners, spiders form- 

 ing an horizontal web, with a cylindrical tube, in 

 the form of a funnel. 



This is sufficient to characterise the genus, contain- 

 ing the different species of spiders, which inhabit 

 cellars and dark places. The species that makes 

 its web in the fields, on bushes, does not belong 

 to the same genus ; it has been properly sepa- 

 rated from it by Walckenaer. The last pair of legs is 

 the longest in this, and the eyes differ essentially in 

 their situation. There is another species, Aery com- 

 mon in Carolina, which, however, 1 have not yet ob- 

 served here, making a web nearly similar to this, 

 hut very different in all its generic characters ; it 

 ought not to, be taken for the other : I intend pub- 

 lishing a description of the genus Aranea, in which 

 this will form a separate section. Hut the charac- 

 ters which 1 have given are sufficient to ascertain 

 whether a spider belongs to the genus Tegeneria, so 

 that with some attention, no mistake will occur. 



