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with green or olive, and occasional patches of purple. The whole surface is reticulated, 
and coyered with yellowish hairs; the venter has a yellowish patch flanked with blackish 
brown on either side, which encompasses the spinnerets and cribellum (6e), which are a 
dull yellowish color; the epigynum (Fig. 6f) is a simple, wide, arched atriolum, without a 
scapus, slightly projecting over the genital cleft. 
Mate: (Fig. 7.) Resembles the female in general structure and coloring, but is smaller, 
being about 3 mm. in length. The abdomen presents the same lumpy appearance, and is 
heavily covered with hairs. The palp (Fig. 7a) is peculiar in its conformation, the digital 
bulb being very long, the cymbium canoe shaped, covered closely with hairs. 
Disrrisurion: I have collected this species at various points from New England along 
the Atlantic Coast southward; in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. I have specimens 
as far to the northwest as Wisconsin (Professor Peckham), and Dr. Marx has specimens from 
Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. It will probably be found to inhabit 
the entire middle zone of the United States. It appears to prefer mountainous or hilly 
regions, although not confined thereto. A favorite dwelling place is in or near pine woods. 
By some oversight, which neither author nor printer can explain, the copy of the fol- 
lowing species was lost, and omitted from its proper place. The error was not discovered 
until the appropriate signature had been printed, and a description is inserted here. 
No. 128. Cyclosa Caroli (Hentz). Plate XVII, Figs. 7, 8. 
1850. petra Caroli, Huntz...... J. B.S., vi, p. 24; Sp. U. S., p. 188, xiv., 15. 
1863. Epeira Caroli, Knyseruinc . . . Orbitel., Sitz. D. Isis, Dresden, p. 137, vi., 17-18. 
1889. Cyclosa Caroli, Marx ...... Catalogue, p. 549. 
Frmare: Total length, 7 mm.; cephalothorax, 2.2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad; abdomen, 
5 mm. long, 2.2 mm. broad, diminishing to about 1 mm. The cephalothorax is a rounded 
oval; color dark brown. The legs and palps yellow, with brown median and apical annuli. 
The abdomen has a grayish hue, with tinges of yellow; is widest at the base, where it is 
somewhat arched, and diminishes from about the middle into an extended caudal part, 
which projects beyond the spinnerets nearly one-half the length of the abdomen. The 
spinnerets are placed well beneath, at the apex of the subconical venter. 
Mate: (Tig. 8.) Total length, 4.45 mm. The cephalothorax is a rounded oyal, almost 
circular, slightly truncate at the base; color reddish brown, with dark stripes passing from 
the fosse to the margin; fosse a circular depression; caput slightly depressed, f darker 
color than the cephalothorax ; face sufficiently wide. The ocular quad is somewhat longer 
than broad, slightly narrower behind; MIF larger than SF, and separated by. about ono 
diameter; space between MF and SF but little larger than that between MF; side eyes on 
tubercles ; propinquate, about equal in ‘size; front row recurved, rear slightly procuryed. 
Tne Leas are 1, 2, 4, 3; yellow, with broad brown annuli on the femora, which are 
sufficiently stout, and apical and median annuli on the other joints. They are well pro- 
vided with stout spines, especially on the tibia of leg-I and leg-II, the latter also slightly 
curved inward. The abdomen, as in the female, is a grayish yellow, mottled with black. 
The spinnerets are placed about the middle of the venter, and the apex of the abdomen 
projecting beyond into a caudal part (8a). The palp (8b) is comparatively short, but the 
digit large, subglobular, terminal bulb brown, cymbium yellow, covered with hairs. The 
radial joint is short, compressed, scarcely more than half the length of the cubital joint, 
which is yellow, and has projecting from it a long, brown spine, slightly curved towards 
the point. The position from which Fig. 8b was drawn does not show the true relative 
proportion of the radial and cubital joints. 
Disrripution: A female was taken by Hentz in Alabama; Dr. Marx collected a male 
in the District of Columbia, and the description of Keyserling is from a female specimen 
collected in New Granada, South America. This indicates distribution from the northern 
belt of Southern United States to the northern belt of South American States. 
