172 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. 
Leas: 1, 2, 4, 3, as follows: 12.2, 10,2, 9, 6.8 mm.; color brown at tips of joints, stout, 
strongly provided with brown spines, and more freely with yellowish white bristles and 
pubescence ; palps as the legs, but of lighter color; mandibles conical ; color, brown, flecked 
with yellow. 
Eyres: Ocular quad on an eminence; somewhat narrower behind, sides not longer 
than front; MF smaller than MR, and separated by about 1.5 diameter or more; MR by 
about their radius; side eyes on tubercles, Barely contingent; SR somewhat, but little, 
larger than SF, with strong gray eyebrows; MF separated from SF by about their area, and 
from the margin of the clypeus by about 1.5 their diameter; fronf row recurved, rear row 
longer and procurved; all the eyes on dark bases. i 
Arnpomen: A rounded ovate, little longer than wide; arched upon the dorsum, 
narrower in front than behind, though in some species the difference is small; gravid 
females are rather widest at the middle and sloping at either extremity ; color brown or 
brownish yellow, thickly covered with white and yellowish long hairs; central folium 
wide, the margins consisting of brown longitudinal bands, which inclose a herring bone 
pattern yellow in color, as shown in the figures, Plate VII. The ventral pattern is blackish 
brown, with a median band of bright yellow and marginal bands darker yellow; spin- 
nerets brown, the base darker and encircled by yellow spots. The epigynum (10a) has a 
wide scapus, somewhat compressed at the base and depressed abruptly at the apex, 
forming a small oval tip. The portule are well displayed on either side, and the atriolum 
strongly pubescent. 
Mare: Fig. 11. Length, 3.5 mm.; in color and pattern differs little from female, but 
apical parts of femora dull brown; femur-I provided with two rows of formidable spines, 
particularly long on the outside; tibia-II not thickened, but a few strong spines clustered 
around the apex. The cephalothorax is about one-fifth longer than broad; in front not 
quite half as broad as in the middle; dorsum flat, with slight lateral grooves, but a deep 
median longitudinal fosse; clypeus low; the arrangement of the eyes similar to that of the 
female, except that the space between SF and MF is relatively less, being hardly greater 
than the distance which separates MF. Total length, 3.5 mm., but some specimens 
measure as much as 4.1 mm. 
DistripuTion: This species appears to be widely distributed throughout the United 
States, and probably inhabits every part thereof. My specimens are from New England, 
along the Atlantic Coast southward to Florida, and through the entire Middle and Central 
States. I have numerous specimens from California, and along the Pacific Coast (Messrs. 
Harford, Orcutt, Dr. Davidson, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Eigenmann), and specimens from the 
Barbadoes and West India Islands, and from Venezuela (Professor Peckham) and other 
parts of South America, The tropical and California specimens (Figs. 12, 12a) are usually 
larger, the annuli upon the legs darker and wider, particularly upon the femora. The 
colors generally upon the head, cephalothorax, and abdomen are more pronounced, the 
browns being darker and the blackish colors deeper. The abdomen is more pointed at the 
apex, wider and more rounded at the base, forming an inverted cone, at the apex of 
which well underneath are the spinnerets. The spinningwork of these spiders is like that 
of their Eastern congeners, but the cocoons are longer. 
No. 81. Epeira anastera Watckenarr. Plate VIII, Figs. 1-4. 
1837. Epeira anastera, WaLcKENAER. . Ins. Apt., ii., No. 4, p. 83; Axpor, G. S., No. 381. 
1837. Dpeira eustala, WALCKENAER . . Ins. Apt., ii., No. 12, p. 37; Appor MSS., Nos. 119, 
120, 361. 
1847. Epeira bombycinaria, Hentz. . . J. B. §., 476; Sp. U. S., p. 117, xiii, 16. 
1863. Hpeira parvula, Keyseruinc. . . Beschr. n. Orb, Isis, p. 131. 
1884. Epeira parvula, Emerton... . N. KE. Ep., p. 317, pl. xxxiv., 12; pl. xxxvii., 1, 2. 
1888. petra eustala, McCook... . . Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 199. 
1889. Epeira eustala, MARX. ..... Catalogue, p. 544. 
1892. Epeira bombycinaria, Keyseruinc, Spinn. Amerik., iv., Ep., p. 145 pl. 7, Fig. 107, fem. 
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