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Epeira ravilla C. L. Koch, 1845, Die Arachniden, vol. 11, p. 73, fig. 890, 
2 . Female holotype from Mexico in Royal Collection in Berlin, lost, 
likely destroyed. However, a specimen from Veracruz, Mexico, in the 
L. Koch collection in the British Museum, Natural History, with the 
label probably by C. L. Koch saying E. ravilla, examined. McCook, 
1893, American Spiders, vol. 3, p. 161, pi. 5, figs. 7, 8, 2 , $. 
? Epeira septima Hentz, 1847, J. Boston Soc. Natur. Hist., p. 470, pi. 30, 
fig. 9, 2 . The types from Alabama and North Carolina have been 
destroyed. Nomen dubium. 
Eriophora ravilla, — Simon, 1864, Histoire Naturelle des Araignees, 1st ed., 
p. 261. F. P.-Cambridge, 1904, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Araneidea, 
vol. 2, p. 465. Roewer, 1942, Katalog der Araneae, vol. 1, p. 866. 
Bonnet, 1955, Bibliographia Araneorum, vol. 2, p. 1785. 
Epeira nicaraguensis Keyserling, 1885, Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 
vol. 34, p. 523, pi. 13, fig. 31, 2 . Female holotype from Nicaragua in 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology, examined. Keyserling, 1893, 
Spinnen Amerikas, vol. 4, p. 214, pi. 10, fig. 159, 2 . new synonymy. 
Epeira balaustina McCook, 1888, Proc. Acad. Natur. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 198. 
Female syntypes from Florida, Swan Island, Caribbean, and San 
Domingo, lost; the type locality is here restricted to [tropical] Florida. 
McCook, 1893, American Spiders, vol. 3, p. 155, pi. 4, fig. 2, 2 . new 
SYNONYMY. 
Epeira b'vvariolata O. P.-Cambridge, 1889, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 
Araneidea, vol. 1, p. 27, pi. 6, fig. 15, juv. Types from Guatemala in 
the British Museum, Natural History, lost. Nomen dubium. Keyserling, 
1892, Spinnen Amerikas, vol. 4, p. 100, pi. 5, fig. 74, $. McCook, 1893, 
American Spiders, vol. 3, p. 160 (in part), pi. 5, fig. 5, 2, $. 
Epeira variolata O. P.-Cambridge, 1889, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Ara- 
neidea, vol. 1, p. 46, pi. 6, fig. 14, juv. Juvenile syntypes from Guate- 
mala in the British Museum, Natural History, lost. 
Eriophora balaustina, — -Banks, 1909, Rep. Centr. Exp. Sta. Cuba, p. 161, 
Epeira minax O. P.-Cambridge, 1893, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Aranei- 
dea, vol. 1, p. 112, pi. 15, fig. 1, 2. Three female syntypes from 
Acaguizotla, Guerrero, Mexico, in the British Museum, Nautral History, 
examined, new synonymy. 
Eriophora minax, — F. P.-Cambridge, 1903, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 
Araneidea, vol. 2, p. 464, pi. 44, fig. 3, 2 . Roewer, 1942, Katalog der 
Araneae, vol. 1, p. 867. Bonnet, 1955, Bibliographia Araneorum, vol. 2, 
p. 1784. 
Aranea nicaraguensis, — F. P.-Cambridge, 1904, Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 
cana, Araneidea, vol. 2, p. 519. Roewer, 1942, Katalog der Araneae, 
vol. 2, p. 848. 
Eriophora circulata, — Comstock, 1912, Spider Book, figs. 108-111, 538; 
1940, Spider Book, rev. ed., figs. 108-111, 538. Probably not Epeira 
circulata Walckenaer. 
? Araneus perfoliatus Franganillo, 1936, Los Aracnidps de Cuba, p. 70. 
Specimen in Cuban Academy of Sciences, Havana, with numbered code 
lacking key. Nomen dubium. 
? Araneus anuncinatus Franganillo. 1963, Los Aracnidos de Cuba, p. 71. 
Specimen disposition, see above. Nomen dubium. 
Araneus nicaraguensis, — Bonnet, 1955, Bibliographia Araneorum, vol. 2, 
p. 549. 
