40 
EPEIRA MICULA. Thor. 
1S92. J£p€ira mkuia^ Thor. Novae Species, Araneamm, etc., p. 37. 
Description of Plate 40 % — spider, mag, ; b, natural size ; c, profile \ cephalo- 
thorax, underside j tf, eyes ; epigyne ; do. profile ; ^, snare reduced* 
Total length, 2^ ; ccphalolhorax, less than i ; breadth, almost 1 j in front, about % | 
abdomen, ; breadlh^about millim. Leg, i. — Z/i-'f — a1niost3i iii* — is/^; iv. — 
a little less than 2^2. Patella 4* tibia, iv, — almost i millim, (Thorell). 
This spider has great resemblance to mti/meineNsts Thor., but can easily 1m! 
distinguished from it by its much smaller size, and by its want of abdominal tubercles or 
black annulations on the legs. Its snare is made on the same plan, perpendicular, from 
5 to 8 inches in diameter. There is a free segment, in the centre of which is placed a line 
of grey silk in which masses of debris or prey is enswathed at regular distances. The 
spider sits in centre, having the appearance of another mass ; m some cases there are other 
masses at the lower side of centre as in mulnmnensis Thor. 
Rays about ... 60 
Inner spiral ... 7 ttirns. 
Free zone ... ^4 inch. 
Outer spiral ... 12 to 50 tuniii at lop. 
Do. ... 30 to 50 do. at bottom. 
Type in my collection. 
