190 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. 
marked ; color yellowish brown, darker at the fosse, and with four stripes of brown upon 
the caput. The caput is about as high as the corselet at its base, but is depressed at. its 
face, which is yellow and slightly pubescent; the head, like the corselet, is glossy. The 
sternum is but little longer than broad, heart shaped, blackish brown, with sternal cones, 
with tufts of long bristlelike hairs. Labium short, semicircular, about one-third the height 
of the maxille, which are gibbous, rather longer than wide. 
Eyes: Ocular quad elevated only in front; the rear wider than the front, and the sides 
longer than either; eyes are about equal in size; MF separated by less than one diameter, 
while MR are separated by about one diameter. Side eyes are contingent; placed on a 
black patch, with a slight tubercle. The space between SF and MF is noticeably greater 
than that between MF, and is little greater than the area of SF, and about equals the space 
between SR and MR; front row recurved, rear row slightly longer and procuryed; clypeus 
height about 1.5 diameter MF. 
Leas: 1, 2, 4, 3; relatively long and thin, narrowing much toward the feet; color 
yellow, with slight brownish annuli at the joints. The leg armature is rather sparse; long 
aculeate spines are scantily distributed on the femora and tibia. The antennee are marked 
and colored as the legs. Mandibles conical, parallel, but little separated at the tips. 
AspoMEeN: Oval, somewhat wider at the base than the apex; slight, rounded shoulder 
humps; the dorsum arched; color shining cretaceous or yellowish; the folial margin drawn 
in black or blackish brown, and irregularly undulating, with a median cretaceous herring- 
bone pattern, which blends with the cretaceous color on the front. Branching longitudinal 
lines pass from near the base to the spinnerets, which are distal. An irregular band of 
cretaceous yellow, which, however, is sometimes greenish, marks the sides, and beyond this 
is a mottled band of black and brown. The ventral pattern is a long blackish band, which 
includes the spinnerets, flanked on either side by a yellowish ribbon, which passes around 
the spinnerets in interrupted patches. The epigynum is without scapus, and might be 
described as a simple short scoop, whose convexity is directed toward the spinnerets. 
Mate: Fig. 6. In general form and marking resembles the female. Length, 5 mm. ; 
legs long; uniform brownish yellow, sparsely pubescent, a few spinous bristles underneath 
femora and tibia; about three rows of long, rather slight spines on femora and tibia, also 
on the inside of metatarsus-I a row of four spines; no special clasping spines or thickening 
on tibia-II. The palp (Fig. 6%) has a well rounded dark brown digital joint almost as long 
as the cubital and humeral; the femoral joint is as long as the three terminal ones. The 
basal processes of the digital joint are much specialized. The mandibles are rather stout 
and widely separated at the tips; the sternum shield shape, wide at the base, narrowing 
at the apex, somewhat longer than wide, with strong sternal cones before coxse-II, III; 
color blackish brown, with a lighter shade or yellowish in the middle; labium subtriangular, 
about one-half the length of the maxille, which are decidedly longer than wide, and: about 
the same width throughout. 
Disrrisurion: Wisconsin, male and female, sent by Professor Peckham. Dr. Marx has 
sent me specimens from Biscayne Bay, Fla. These widely separated points would indicate 
a general distribution oyer the Middle United States. 
No. 48. Epeira nephiloides Camprivar. Plate XIV, Figs. 5, 6; Pl. XXII, Figs. 3, 3a-c. 
1889. Zpeira nephiloides, Camprincr . . Biol. Cent. Amer., Aran., p. 32, vii., 1, 2. 
Frmare: Total length, 10.5 mm.; cephalothorax, 4.5 mm. long, 3.75 mm. wide, 2 mm. 
at the face; abdomen, 6.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide across the base, narrowing to 2 mm. ati 
the apex. 
CrpHALorHorax: Cordate, truncated and indented at the base; corselet edges rounded, 
flat on the summit; the fosse semicircular; corselet grooves sufficiently distinct; cephalic 
suture distinct; color (in alcohol) dull yellow, with streakings of brown from the corselet 
along middle of caput; slightly pubescent; a few long gray hairs at the caput base, which 
is lowly arched upon a level with the corselet, and slightly depressed at the face. Sternum 
