244 
Psyche 
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Museum of Comparative Zoology; examined. Not Linyphia bicolor 
Nicolet, 1849. new synonymy. 
Singa cubana Banks, 1909, Rept. Centr. Exp. Sta. Cuba, vol. 2, p. 157, pi. 45, 
fig. 8, 9. Female holotype from Havana, Cuba, in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology; examined, new synonymy. 
Linyphia banksi Petrunkevitch, 1911, Bull. Amer. Mus. Natur. Hist., vol. 29, 
p. 246. New name for Lynyphia bicolor Banks, name preoccupied, new 
SYNONYMY. 
Araneus varians Petrunkevitch, 1911, Bull. Amer. Mus. Natur. Hist., vol. 
29, p. 323. New name for Singa variabilis because erroneously thought 
preoccupied by Epeira variabilis Keyserling, 1864. Not Araneus varians 
Thorell, 1899. 
Singa melania Chamberlin and Ivie, 1947, Bull. Univ. Utah, biol. ser., vol. 
10, ser. 3, p. 64. Juvenile type from Matanuska, Alaska; lost, new 
SYNONYMY. 
Araneus itemvarians Bonnet, 1955, Bibliographia Araneorum, vol. 2, p. 523. 
New name for Araneus varians Petrunkevitch, 1911. 
Map. 2. Distribution of Hypsosinga variabilis (Emerton). 
