19481 Bryant — Spiders f rom Mexico 61 
brown, other joints much paler with faint darker bands 
near the tips, long black spines, no ventral spines on the 
femora, III and IV tibiae with dorsal basal spine ; epi- 
gynum, area wider than long, a pale broad median scape 
with a recurved spoon-shaped tip, base with several 
short dark bristles, each side of the median scape rather 
narrow plain areas with outer margins heavily chitinized ; 
a lateral view shows the median scape curved outward. 
Male. Length, 3.6 mm., ceph. 2.0 mm. long, 1.5 mm. 
wide, abd. 2.0. mm. long, 1.6 mm. wide. 
Cephalomorax pale brownish-yellow, cephalic por- 
tion narrowed and rather high, faint thoracic groove on 
the posterior third, scar of a median bristle midway be- 
tween eyes and groove ; eyes same as in the female with 
scars of the two bristles between the a.m.e. ; bristles on 
the margin of the clypeus as in the female ; abdomen 
oval, about two-tliirds as wide as long, white with a dark 
folium on the posterior two-tliirds with the emarginate 
sides as in the female, venter pale brown, with a pair of 
very faint pale spots anterior to the spinnerets ; legs, 1- 
2-4-3, II right missing, pale with vague broad dark bands 
at the base and tip of tibiae, I and II coxae with a small 
hook, no ventral spines on the femora, spines long and 
dark, I pair, tibia, ventral, 2-2-2, basal and median pairs 
very long, lateral, 3 _ 3, dorsal, 1-1-1, metatarsus, ventral, 
0, prolateral, 1, retrolateral, 2, II pair, patella, at the 
tip, 1 very long, 1 short, tibia, ventral, 3p short at the 
base, 2 at the tip, metatarsus, dorsal, 1 at the base, III 
and IV tibiae, dorsal basal spine, IV femur near tip a re- 
trolateral row of 6 slender spines, III femur, a retrola- 
teral row of 3 very slender spines ; palpus pale, patella, 
paracymbium abruptly recurved and the tip broad and 
bifid; the parts of the palpus best understood from the 
figure. 
Holotype $ Mexico; Acapulco, 19 December 1944 (S. 
Jones). Allotype <$ Mexico; Acapulco, 18 December 
1944 (S. Jones). Paratypes 6 ? 8 .<? Mexico; Acapulco, 
18 December 1944 (S. Jones). 
The generic position of Aranea vesta is very uncer- 
tain. It cannot be placed in the genus Neosconella 
F.O.P.-Camb. as it lacks ventral spines on the femora 
