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DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 247 
Genus LARINIA, Simon, 1874. 
In Larinia! the cephalothorax is oval, with decided corselet grooves and longitu- 
dinal fosse. The midrear eyes are closely approximated, almost contingent; the interval 
which separates them from the siderear eyes ig much greater than that which divides the 
midfront pair. The midfront eyes form a straight, or almost straight, row, arranged at 
almost equal distances from one another; the distance between the midfront and sidefront 
being slightly the greater. The mandibles are perpendicular; the sternum is longer than 
wide; the labium and maxille are as in Epeira. The abdomen is much longer than 
wide, oval in shape, attenuated at the two extremities, marked by longitudinal bands. The 
palps are as in Epeira. The legs in order of length are 1, 2, 4, 3; more or less robust ; 
provided with four pairs of spines on the femora, tibiec, and metatarsi; the tibize of the 
first and second pairs are equally slender; the thighs are without hairs. The superior 
tarsal claws have nine or ten denticulations, of which the first are much longer than the 
others, which are about equal. The skin is almost always smoeth, although covered with 
colored hairs and pubescence, as in Epeira. 
No. 98. Larinia borealis Banks. Plate XXII, Figs. 1, 2. 
1894, Larinia borealis, BANKS. .~. 2. 2 6 ee wh ew te wes Entomological News, p. 8. 
Fremate; Total length, 7 mm.; cephalothorax, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; width at face, 
1 mm.; abdomen, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, less than 1 mm. at base. 
Crrmatornorax: A long oval, high and somewhat peaked at the fosse, which is a 
longitudinal slit; squarely truncate behind; the corselet grooves distinct ; cephalic suture 
pronounced; the caput slightly depressed and gently arched from fosse to ocular space ; 
face sufficiently wide, about, or a little more than, one half the greatest width of the 
cephalothorax ; color dull yellow; slightly pubescent, except at the face, where there are 
tufts of strong, whitish, gray bristles. 
Srernum: Cordate, longer than wide, in the proportion of five to four; elevated and 
arched in the middle; with sternal cones; the apex triangular, the anterior and middle 
part indented, and of about equal width; color blackish brown, with an irregular median 
band of yellowish; scantily provided with bristlelike hairs on the margin. Labium with 
a short compressed shank; tip at base wider than high; subtriangular; of a light yellow 
brown color. Maxille somewhat longer than wide; the shank slightly compressed ; the 
apex rounded and thickened, and obtusely triangular at the tip; a few short, curved, 
stubby bristles. 
Eyes: Ocular quad elevated in front, the rear eyes seated upon the base of the eleva- 
tion; the quad decidedly wider in front than rear; MF somewhat larger than MR, which 
are separated by less than a radius, indeed are almost contingent ; distance between MF 
and SF about 1.3 the interval of MF, or less than the area thereof. Side eyes on slight 
tubercles, with blackish bases; barely contingent; subequal, but SF apparently slightly 
larger; the space between MR and SR decidedly greater than between MF and SF, and 
equal to about 1.5 the area of MR; the front eye row slightly recurved, rear row pro- 
curved, in this respect resembling Epeira; clypeus height equal to about one diameter MF. 
Leas: 1, 2, 4, 3. Color uniform yellow; short, rather stout, well provided with hairs 
and bristles, and rather sparsely with thin, yellowish spines; tibia and metatarsus of leg—I 
about equal in length; palps colored as the legs; mandibles conical, not receding, yellow. 
AppomEn: Ovate, compressed at the base to an obtuse point, which overhangs the 
cephalothorax ; rounded at the apex, where it diminishes in width, but is not compressed 
to a point, as at the apex; dorsum evenly arched to the apex, which slightly overhangs 
the spinnerets; color dull yellow; rather thickly coated with yellowish white hairs; a 
median band of lighter yellow, and of almost equal width throughout, passes from base to 
11 give substantially Simon’s diagnosis of this genus. 
