248 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. 
apex, quite around to the spinnerets; on either side is an indistinct folium of yellowish 
brown, the margins of which are slightly indented; the dorsal surface is reticulated. The 
ventral pattern is a long band of yellowish brown, with two longitudinal stripes of creta- 
ceous or yellowish along the middle. The epigynum of the specimen in hand _ is scarcely 
matured, but shows an atriolum with a broad base and a slightly projecting scapus, or 
simple flap. 
Mate: In general form resembles the female. The cephalothorax is relatively some- 
what wider; grouping of the eyes substantially the same. The legs and mouth parts are of 
like color, although the sternum, in the specimen in hand, is of lighter hue. The legs are 
relatively longer, stronger, and more decidedly armed with yellowish brown spines than 
the female; tibia-II is without special clasping spines. The abdomen differs decidedly in 
color, being a beautiful lake red, the central band undulated, and with longitudinal stripes 
of yellow intervening; the general color of the sides is a warm pink, mottled with 
occasional black dots, and covered densely with yellowish hairs. The sternum in form 
differs little from that of the female; but the maxillee are scarcely longer than wide, and 
the tips are squarely truncated. ; 
DistrrsuTion: Both male and female were received from Mr. Nathan Banks, and col- 
lected at Olympia, Washington, by Mr. Trevor Kincaid. Mr. Banks has received several 
specimens from the same gentleman, and has two from Franconia, New Hampshire, collected 
by Mrs. A, Trumbull Slosson. This would indicate a wide distribution across the northern 
belt of States, or, possibly, introduction by commerce. 
Genus DREXELIA, McCook, 1892. 
In the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1888 I gave 
the diagnosis of a new genus of spiders, Drexelia, to receive Hentz’s species, Epeira directa, 
and Cambridge’s Epeira tetragnathoides, which appeared to me to be the same, or a closely 
related, species. Identical with the latter is a third species, which Dr. George Marx, in his 
catalogue of “Described North American Aranez,” has published as Epeira deludens Key- 
serling in litteris, and which had been examined by Count Keyserling. All these specimens 
appeared to me to be identical, although I had only the description of Cambridge from 
which to judge, not having seen a typical specimen of his species. Under the circumstances 
it seemed necessary not only to restore the specific name of Hentz, but to make his species 
the type of a new genus. 
Drexelia is separated sharply from Epeira by the peculiar elongated shape of the ster- 
num, which is at least, or nearly, twice as long as wide. Further, by the character of the 
maxille, which are longer than wide; and, still further, by the shape of the abdomen, 
which is long, narrow, straight, and, especially in the female, bluntly pointed at the base, 
and somewhat compressed at the apex. The legs are less stout than those of the typical 
Epeira, and the spinous armature thereon feebler and less abundant; the metatarsus of 
leg-I about equals the femur in length. In the form of the maxille Drexelia approaches 
both Nephila and Meta, but differs from them, and, in a more marked degree, from Epeira, 
in the relatively greater length of the sternum. It differs also from these genera in the 
form of the abdomen, that of Nephila being as long as in Drexelia, but subcylindrical in 
form, that of Meta being a rounded oyal, approaching thus the typical Epeira. In the 
shape of the abdomen Drexelia somewhat resembles Tetragnatha, and also approaches it in 
the more feebly armed character of the legs; but the mouth parts and sternum, to say 
nothing of other characteristics, widely divide these two genera. Drexelia approaches 
Epeira in the contour of the face and head, but lacks the strong tubercles on which the 
eyes are placed in the more typical species of Epeira. It resembles examples of the same 
genus in the general grouping of the eyes, although the two midrear eyes of the central 
group are more closely approximated than in Epeira. 
Mr. Nathan Banks (Hntomological News, Philadelphia, January, 1894) has expressed the 
opinion that Drexelia directa properly belongs to Simon’s genus Larinia (1874). Certainly 
