DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES, a 
No. 1. Epeira sclopetaria (Cirrcx). Plate I., Figs. 9, 9a; Pl. IL, Figs. 10, 11. 
1757. Araneus sclopetarius, Cumrck . . Aranei Svecici (Svenska Spindlar), p. 43, pl. 2, 
tab. 3, Fig. 1. 
1757. Araneus sericatus,) Cumrck .. . Aran. Svec., p. 40, pl. 2, tab. di, 
1789. Aranea undata, Ovivimr. . . . . Eneyel. Méthod., iy., p. 200. 
1838. peira sericata, Kocu, C. . . . . Herr.-Scheeff. Deutach. Ins., pp. 120, 1. 
1834. peira virgata, HAwN. .... . Die Arach., ii., p. 26, tab. 46, Fig. 113. 
v 1837. petra frondosa, WavckrnArr. . Ins. Apt., ii., p. 66; Appor, G.S.,? No. 326. 
1847. Hpeira vulgaris, Hentz .... . J. B.S.,' v., pl. 30, p. 469; Id., Sp. U. S., p. 108, 
pl. 12, Fig. 6. 
1850. Epeira sericata, Koon. .... . Die Arachn., xi., p. 110, pl. 385, Figs. 914, 915. 
1851. Epeira sclopetaria, Westrinc . . Férteckning, ete., p. 34. 
1855. peira sclopetaria, Toorrnt . . . Recensio Critica, p. 22. 
1861. Epeira sclopetaria, Westrinc . ; Aranez Svecicee, p. 33. 
1864. peira sericata, Buackwautn . . . Sp. G. B. & I.,* p. 328, pl. 23, Fig. 238. 
1864, peira sericea, SIMON... .. . Hist. Nat. d’Araign., p. 492. 
1866. peira sclopetaria, Menar. . . . Preuss. Spinn., p. 57, pl. 7, tab. 7. 
1871. petra sclopetaria, Buackwatt. . Spiders from Montreal, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 
Vili., p. 429. 
1884. pera sclopetaria, Emerron . . . N. E. Ep.,® p. 303, pl. 33, p. 4; pl. 35, p. 10. 
1889. Hpeira sclopetaria, McCook . . . American Spiders, Vols. i., ii. 
1889. petra sclopetaria, Marx .. . . Catalogue,® in loc. 
Fremate: Total length, 12.6 mm.; cephalothorax, 5 mm. long by 5 mm, wide; abdomen, 
8 mm. long by 6.5 mm. wide. The general color is grayish brown, which in some speci- 
mens is deepened into iron gray upon the abdomen, cepltalothorax, and terminal joints of 
legs. The cephalothorax and abdomen are usually uniform in color. 
Crenatornorax: A rounded oval, truncated at the base; the median fosse is a deep 
lateral pit placed back of the middle point, which is the highest; the sides of the corselet 
are rather steeply sloped, the head depressed, the caput inclined from its insertion to the 
eye space ; color glossy black brown, covered sparsely along the sides with gray hairs, which 
form a thicker band at the margin, and are spread out more thickly along the sides of the 
caput forming heavy eyebrows, and covering the clypeus. Sternum shield shaped, longer 
than wide, but of nearly equal width to the third cox; glossy black, covered particularly 
at the sides with gray hair; labium wider than long, the tip triangular; the maxille as 
wide as, or wider than long, inclined towards each other, rounded on the sides, and, like the 
labium, dark glossy brown, light yellow at tips. 
Eyrs: The ocular quad upon a rounded prominence most decided in front, which is 
decidedly wider than the rear, and about as wide as the sides. MF are separated by about 
two diameters, and are larger than MR, which are separated by more than one diameter. 
Side eyes upon tubercles, separated by about the radius of SR, which is slightly smaller 
than SF, and situated almost upon a line with it upon the side face, has as in the case of 
1 Strictly adhered to, the law of priority would give this name to the species, as it appears first in 
order of paging in Clerck’s book. This seems to have led Koch and Blackwall, as below, to adopt the 
name Epeira sericata, the latter, however, subsequently abandoning that for the more generally accepted 
one, As the change would not affect the credit due to the fireh author, and would cause much confusion, 
the better known title is here retained. 
2 Georgia spiders, manuscript drawings. 
*These abbreviations will be used throughout for the paper of Hentz in the Journal of the Boston 
Society Natural History (J. B. S.), and the collection of same by the late Mr. Edward Burgess, entitled 
Spiders of the United States (Sp. U. S.). 
* Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, so throughout. 
®New England Spiders of the Family Epeiride, Trans. Conn. Academy, Vol. VI., 1884. Abbreviated 
throughout: N. E. Ep. 
° By this single word I refer throughout to Dr. George Marx’s ‘Catalogue of the Described Arane 
of Temperate North America,” Proceed. U. 8. Nat. Museum, Vol. XII., 1889. 
