140 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPI 
annulated, strongly armed with hairs, bristles, and spines. Tibia-II is not specially 
ened or provided with the clasping spines, but is well armored with long black spines. The 
palpal digit is shown at Plate I., Fig. 11b. It may be readily distinguished from those of E. 
cornuta-strix and E, sclopetaria by the absence of the long bifid crablike claw near th 
Disrrieurion: Epeira patagiata is one of the earliest known species, hav 
described in the last century by Clerck, the Swedish pioneer in Arachnology. t is v 
extended over Europe, and is one of the Syrian spiders collected in the Holy Land by 1 
Cambridge. Its distribution in our own country is quite general. I have et 
throughout the Eastern United States as far to the northeast as Massachusetts, and 
northwest at Portland, Oregon. The collection of Dr. Marx notes it as far south ir 
ginia, and to the northeast at Fort Simmo, Labrador. I have not found it abundant around 
Philadelphia. Along the northern boundary of the United States it has been collecte 
Lake Superior, in Michigan, in Montana, at Fort Yukon and Sitka in Alaska, and Fort } 
nah, in the Aleutian Islands. I have numerous specimens from Utah, collected by Prof 
Orson Howard, and numbers from California by Mr. Curtis. It is probable, therefore, 
the spider has made the entire circuit of the world, and may be found in almost | 
country of the northern hemisphere. In this respect it is certainly entitled to a rem 
ble position among our spider fauna, but perhaps other species might share this distin 
tion of cosmopolitan distribution had they been collected as diligently as Patagiata. 
No. 3. Epeira cornuta (Crrrck). Plate I., Figs. 8, 9, 10, tte. 
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1757. Araneus cornuus, Cuerck . . . . Sy. Spindl., p. 39, pl. 1, tab. 2. 
1805. Epeira apoclisa, WALcKENAER . . Tab. d. Araign., p. 16 (in part). 
1835. Epeira arundinacea, Kocn . . . . Herr.-Schaeff., Deutch]. Ins., 131, 18-20. 
1837. Epeira apoclisa, HAWN .... . Die Arach., ii., p. 30, pl. 48, Fig. 116. 
1845. Epeira arundinacea, Kocn. . . . Id., xi., p. 109, pl. 385, Fig. 913. 
1845. Hpeira foliata, Koch ...... Die Arach., xi., p. 119, Figs. 920, 921. 
1851. peira cornuta, WestriInG . . . . Enum. Aran., p. 34, p. 21. 
1855. Lpeira cornuta, Tuorrnu . . . . Recensio Critica, p. 21. 
1864. Epeira foliata, Keyseruinc . . . Beschr. n. Orbitel. Sitz. d. Dresden, p. 92, pl. 7, | 
Figs. 10, 11. : 
1866. Epeira cornuta,Mence .... . Preuss. Spinn., i., p. 58, pl. 8, tab. 8. 
1870. Epeira cornuta, TuorELL . . . . Syn. Europ. Spid., p. 15. 
Variery: Epeira cornuta-strix Henvz. 
\ 1837. petra apoclisa-americana,W atcK., Ins. Apt., ii., p. 61. Vv vs 
1837. Epeira foliosa, WALcKENAER. . . Ins. Apt., ii., p. 68; Appor’s Ga. Sp. Mss., No. 39. 
1846. Epeira afinis, BuackwatL. . . . Spid. from Canada, Ann. & Mag. Nat. . Hist., 
Xviii., 77. 
1847. Epeira striz, Hentz. ...... J. B.S., v., p. 473; Sp. U. S., 112, xiii., 5. 
1869. Epeira apoclisa,GiepEL ... . . Spinn. a Illinois. Zeitschr. f. Ges. Naturwiss, - 
XXxili., p. 249. 
1884. Epeira strix, EMERTON. .... . N. Engl. Ep., 305; xxxiii., 5; xxxy., 12. 
1889. Epeira striz, McCook ...... Am. Spid. and their Spinningwork. 
1889. Epeira cornuta, Marx. ..... Catalogue, p. 544. 
Femare: Total length, 12 mm.; cephalothorax, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; abdomen, 7 
mm. long by 5.5 mm. wide. I have classified Hentz’s Eperia strix asa variety of E. cornuta, 
after comparing the former with specimens of the latter. Of these, one was furnished by 
Professor Waldemar Wagner, from Moscow, Russia, and the other by Mr. Thomas Work- 
man, from Ireland, Both of these examples differ from Strix in that the more roundly 
arched abdomen is diminished backward more decidedly than Strix. Strix is slightly flat- 
tened upon the dorsum of the abdomen, and the sides are carried from the base to the 
apex with very little diminution in width, making an almost even oval in outline. The 
