DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 163 
triangular, wide, more than half as long as maxilla; base brown, with a touch of bright 
yellow in the centre; tips yellow; maxillee gibbous, as wide, or nearly as wide, as long. 
Eyes: Ocular quad on an eminence higher before; the front slightly wider than the 
rear, and somewhat narrower than sides; eyes about equal in size; MF separated by about 
1.5 diameter; MR by about one diameter; side eyes on tubercles, barely contingent, sub- 
equal; the space between SF and MF about equals the area of the latter, or 1.5 their inter- 
vening space; the distance between SR and MR is much greater; the clypeus has the 
height of about 1.3 diameter MF, and is marked by rows of long whitish hairs, which are 
also found in the eye space; front row is slightly procurved, almost aligned; rear row 
longer and much procuryed. 
Lras: 1, 2, 4,3; color yellow, with dark brown annuli, armed, but not numerously, with 
blackish spines and yellowish bristles and hairs; palps similarly colored and armed, but 
rather lighter yellow ; mandibles dark brown, conical, retreating toward the face, rather long. 
Axspomen: ‘Triangular ovate, widest across the shoulders, narrowing somewhat toward 
the front and apex; the folium is a broad blanket of yellowish white, which covers the 
entire dorsal field, extending up in a triangular form toward the front, the apex almost 
touching the cephalothorax on either side; the base is marked with dark brown; the sur- 
face is reticulated, and rather sparsely covered with short gray hairs; the ventral pattern is 
a mottled dark brown figure, with an interrupted band of yellow on either side; the 
epigynum (Fig. 3a) has a short wide scapus, rounded at the tip, where it is spooned, the 
channel extending along the lower surface of the scapus; the atriolum is rather high, the 
portulze on either side prominent. 
Distrisution: District of Columbia, one specimen only. (Marx Collection.) 
No. 21. Epeira punctigera Dovescuatn. Plate VI, Figs. 4, 4a-b. 
1857. Epeira punctigera, Dourscuatyn . Tweede Bijdrage t. d. Kenn. d. Arac. Ind. Arch. 
1864. Hpeira triangula, Knyseruina . . Isis, Dresden, Beschreib. Orbit., p. 98, tab. v., 12-14. 
1871. Hpeira indigatrix, Kocu, L. . . . Arach. Austral., p. 66, pl. v., 8-9. 
1877. Epeira vatia, TuoreLL .... . Studi I., Ragni di Selebes, p. 382-384. 
1878. petra punctigera, Toorent . . . Studi IT, Ragni di Amboina, p. 59. 
1881. petra punctigera, Tuorrnt . . . Studi sui Rag. Malesi e Papuani, p. 104, var. vatia. 
1889. Hpeira punctigera, Marx .. . . Catalogue, 547. 
1892. Epeira punctigera, Knysrruine . . Spin. Amer. Epeir., p. 136, pl. vii., 100. 
Frematn: Rather uniform in color, the dorsum a brighter yellow or whitish, the colors 
evidently faded in alcohol. Total length, 9 mm.; cephalothorax, 4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide; 
abdomen, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide. Keyserling describes a female 11.2 mm. long, with an 
abdomen 8 mm. long by 7.2 mm. wide. - 
CrrHaLornorax: The corselet well rounded at margin, rather high, and peaked at the 
crest ; depressed and wide at the face; fosse not deep, being rather a slit upon the sloping 
posterior side; cephalic suture distinct ; corselet grooves rather indistinct; color dark uniform 
yellow, with a yellowish patch at the caput, the base covered with whitish yellow hairs; 
sternum yellow, with a broad lighter yellow median band; shield shaped, triangular at 
the apex, compressed in the middle; sternal cones distinct before coxe-I, III; strong yellow 
hairs; labium large, subtriangular; maxille wide as long, subtriangular at tips, which are 
inclined towards each other; sparsely covered with curved dark bristles. 
Eyrs: Ocular quad on high rounded eminence, front as wide as sides, narrowest 
behind; the four eyes about equal, and on black rings; MF separated by nearly two diame- 
ters; MR by about one; side eyes on not very prominent tubercles, barely contingent; SF 
larger than SR; clypeus height about 2.5 diameter MF; front row slightly recurved, almost 
aligned, the rear row longer and procuryed; space between SF and MF equals at least 1.5 
area of MF; space between SR and MR more than twice the area of MR. 
Leas: 1, 2, 4,3; stout, well clothed with pubescence ; strong yellow spines, with brown- 
ish bases; underneath each femur is a single row of long bristlelike spines, and tufts of 
