DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 179 
Disrripurion: I have specimens from New Jersey, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, 
and California; Hentz described it from Alabama; Dr. Marx has it from the District of 
Jolumbia, Illinois, and Texas. This indicates that it inhabits the entire southern portion of 
the United States, as far north as the District of Columbia, and westward to California, I 
haye no specimens from any of the Northern or Middle States, except one from Wisconsin, 
marked doubtful. The coloring and dorsal markings vary greatly in specimens under 
observation, the difference not dependent upon moulting changes, as it shows in mature 
examples. Colors range from dark yellow, with blackish or brown spots, to white; pale 
yellows, pinks, and even greenish tints appear on fresh specimens. The V-shaped circular 
spots on the dorsum are sometimes distinct, and again disappear, giving place to a triangular 
folium with interrupted margins. 
No. 36. Epeira Bonsalle, new species. Plate VIII, Fig. 10. 
Femate: Total length, 5 mm.; abdomen, 3.5 mm. long, 3 mm, wide; cephalothorax, 
2 mm. long, 1.75 mm. wide. 
CrpnHatorHorax: Corselet well rounded, elevated in centre, deep rounded fosse ; 
corselet grooves sufficiently distinct; cephalic suture deeply marked, separating the head 
decidedly from the corselet; the head slightly depressed toward the face, where it is not 
narrowed ; color, yellow to yellowish brown, with a lighter stripe on the margin. Sternum 
shield shaped, with slight sternal cones, color yellow, slightly clothed with long yellow 
hairs. Maxillee subglobose, decidedly broader than long; cut square at the tip; labium 
triangular, colored as maxillee, and is about half their height. 
Eyrs: Ocular quad almost a square; but very slightly narrower in front than behind; 
MF black, MR amber color; MI separated by about 1.5 their diameter; MR slightly larger 
and separated by about 1.3 diameter; front row slightly recurved; rear procurved. (Fig. 
10a.) Side eyes on slight tubercles, propinquate, SF the larger. SF separated from MF by 
a little more than the area of the latter; SR from MR by at least 1.3 the area of the latter ; 
MF from the clypeus margin by about 1.5 their diameter. 
Lres: 1, 2, 4, 3; stout, yellow, without decided annuli, armed with strong bristlelike 
hairs and strong long spines. The palps are similarly armed. 
Aspomren: Subtriangular, with slight basal tubercles, at which point the width about 
equals the length ; dorsum rounded, and well arched to the distal spinnerets; color green, 
with a folium yellow at the margin, green in the centre, except at the median line, which 
again is yellow. Branching longitudinal lines mark the apical part of the folium, and on 
either side within the yellow irregular folial margin is a row of four brownish spots, 
approximated toward the apex in V-shape. The yenter is greenish yellow, except the 
epigynum, which is brown, of which the scapus is rounded, wrinkled, of nearly equal 
thickness throughout, except at the tip, where it broadens out into a heart shaped spoon 
of at least twice the width of the base. A minute tonguelike appendage extends from 
each of the portule. 
Disrrisution: This species, of which I have but one specimen, was received from 
California. It strongly resembles E. miniata, of which it may possibly be a variety, or 
variant form. 
No. 37, Epeira Mayo, new species. Plate VIII, Fig. 11. 
1889. peira Mayo, Marx in lilt. . . . Catalogue, p. 546 (Kwysertine in Titt.). 
FemaLe: Two specimens, one 5 mm, long, the other 4.5. In general form and char- 
acter this species resembles closely E. miniata. It appears to me to be a variety thereof 
after studying the type upon which Count Keyserling in his MSS. notes established the 
above. The abdomen is more ovate than E. miniata, not so wide relatively across the 
base, nor so sharply ridged in the dorsal crest. The V-shaped folial spots are wanting, and 
no distinct folial pattern appears, only irregular, waving, pale lateral lines, which give an 
