176 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK, 
No. 83. Epeira linteata, new species. Plate VIII, Figs. 5, 6. 
Fremate: Total length, 4 mm.; abdomen, 2.6 mm. long, 2.6 wide, narrowing to 1 mm. ; 
cephalothorax, 2 mm. long, 1.6 wide; about the face, 1 mm. wide. 
CrrnaLormorax: Corselet a rounded oval, peaked in the centre, sloping sharply down 
behind, with a smooth flat surface, and with almost an equal slope toward the front; fosse 
almost obliterated; cephalic suture not prominent; corselet grooves indistinct; color yellow, 
with streaks of brown; caput and face covered with long yellowish-white hairs. Sternum 
shield shape, truncated in front; sternal cones; yellowish brown; slightly pubescent; labium 
sub-rectangular at base and triangular at tip; maxillee rounded at margins; as broad as 
long; color as the sternum. 
Eyes: Ocular quad without a decided prominence; its eyes about equal in size; the 
front about equal to the length and a little wider than the rear. MF dark colored, sepa- 
rated by about 1.5 diameter; MR amber, and separated by about one diameter. Side eyes 
about equal in size, placed on a slight tubercle; SF separated from MF by about the area 
of MF; the two eyes contingent, and SR so nearly on a line with SF that they seem to be 
grouped rather with the front than the rear row. The space between SR and MR equals 
at least three, perhaps four, times the space between MR. The front row of eyes is almost 
aligned, being only slightly recurved; the rear row is much procurved; clypeus high, its 
margin separated from MF eyes by about twice their diameter. 
Lees: 1, 2, 4, 3; stout for so small a species; armored with yellow spines and long 
bristlelike hairs; the joints appear to lack annuli, but my specimens have been much 
injured in the alcohol. Mandibles subconical, diverging slightly at the tips, a little reced- 
ing beneath. 
Anpomen: Subtriangular, and without dorsal tubercles. At the widest part it is about 
as broad as long; is highly arched, rounding from the cephalothorax to the apex, and 
marked by a broad, white, capelike folium, with denticulate edges, extending from the 
spinnerets to the base, and overlapping the basal front in a scalloped point. (Plate VIII., 
Fig. 5b.) This white patch is broken in the centre by a dark interrupted band, dividing 
on either side of the median line. The sides, like the centre, are yellow brown, marked 
with reticulations at the venter. The e,sgynum has a short scapus broadened at the tip 
(Figs. 5c, 5d), and appears to proceed from a bowl shaped atriolum, that in one specimen at 
least (5d) seems to pass out beneath. 
Mate: The male (Fig. 6) differs little in its markings from the female. It is somewhat 
smaller in size, and is distinguished by a palpus whose digital bulb is given at Fig. 6b. 
This species resembles in many particulars E. miniata, but differs in the form of the 
eyes (5f), especially in the location of the rear lateral eyes. It also lacks the well developed 
dorsal tubercle upon the base of the..aptomen which characterizes E. miniata, and the 
epigynum is distinctly different. The species is probably a little more closely related to 
Emerton’s Epeira aiboventris. 
Distrisution: The only specimens which I haye, four females and one male, were col- 
lected in North Carolina. 
No, 34. Epeira corticaria Emrrron. Plate VIII, Figs. 7, 7a-d. 
1884. peira corticaria, EMerron ... N. E. Ep., p. 300, pl. 33, Fig. 14; pl. 85, Fig. 9. 
Femare: Total length, 7 mm.; abdomen, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; cephalothorax, 
2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. F 
CrpHaLoTHORAX: Longer than broad; rounded at the edges; cephalic suture deep; 
somewhat flattened on the top; the fosse well marked; corselet grooves not prominent; 
color yellow, with a patch of brown around the fosse and on the base of caput; head but 
little depressed, wide in front. Sternum dark or blackish brown, with decided sternal 
cones, slightly covered with yellow pubescence; labium subtriangular; maxille slightly 
longer than broad, and subtriangular at the tip. 
