290 
Psyche 
[September 
County, Florida, H. K. Wallace (personal communication) observed 
a pompilid wasp [ Poecilopompilus interruptus (Say)] attacking a 
spider while in the web and on the ground. 
Distribution. Gulf coast, Florida, Central Mexico, and West 
Indies to South America. 
Border records. Maryland. Bethesda, 6 August 1943, ? (J. M. 
Davis. Grenada: near St. George’s. Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, 
[1865-1866], cf (Thayer Exped.). 
Eriophora fuliginea (C. L. Koch), new combination 
Map 2; Figures ia, 25-34 
Epeira fuliginea C. L. Koch, 1893, Die Arachniden, vol. 5, pi. 58, fig. 375, 
$ . Three female syntype specimens from Brazil were in the Bavarian 
collection in Munich, presumably destroyed. — • Taczanowski, 1873, Horae 
Soc. Entomol. Ross., vol. 9, p. 129. 
Epeira hispida C. L. Koch, 1845, Die Arachniden, vol. 11, p. 71, fig. 889, $. 
Male type from Brazil in the Zoologisches Museum, Humboldt Uni- 
versitat, Berlin; examined, new synonmy. 
Epeira ursina Keyserling, 1865, Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 15, 
p. 822, pi. 19, figs. 3-5, $. Female holotype from [the Spanish Colony] 
New Granada, in the British Museum, Natural History, examined. 
Keyserling, 1893, Spinnen Amerikas, vol. 4, p. 229, pi. 11, fig. 170, 9 . 
NEW SYNONYMY. 
Epeira trapezoides Karsch, 1879, Stettiner Entomol. Z. vol. 40, p. 107. 
Female holotype from Santa Marta, Colombia, in the Zoologisches 
Museum, Berlin, examined. NEW synonymy 
Epeira messalina Hasselt, 1888, Tijdschr. Entomol. 31: 181, pi. 6, figs. 1, 2, 
9 . Female holotype from Surinam, in the Natural History Museum, 
Leiden, examined, new synonymy. 
Epeira purpurascens O. P.-Cambridge, 1889, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 
vol. 1, p. 33, pi. 7, figs. 4, 5, 9 , $. Female syntypes from Bugaba, 
Panama, in the British Museum (Natural History), examined. Key- 
serling, 1893, Spinnen Amerikas, vol. 4, p. 226, pi. 11, fig. 168, 9 , $ 
[ purpureseens ]. new synonymy. 
Araneus fuligineus , — Simon, 1895, Histoire Naturelle des Araignees, vol. 1, 
p. 803. Bonnet, 1955, Bibliographia Araneorum, vol. 2, p. 5 , 05. 
Araneus purpurascens, — Simon, 1897, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 873. 
Figs. 10-24. Eriophora ravilla (C. L. Koch). 10. Male, left palpus, 
mesal view. 11. Embolus. 12. Epigynum. 13-15. Base of epigynum. 13. 
Ventral. 14. Posterior. 15. Lateral. 16. Female, ventral view of abdomen. 
17-21. Female, dorsal view of abdomen. 17. (Florida). 18. (Texas). 
19. (Nayarit). 20. (Veracruz). 21. (Nicaragua). 22-24. Female, lateral 
view of abdomen. 22. (Jamaica). 23. (Nayarit). 24. (Veracruz). 
Size Indicators: Figs. 10-15, 0.5 mm. Figs. 17-24, 1 mm. 
