1962] 
Levi — Chrysso 
2i5 
45a. 
45b. 
46a. 
46b. 
47a. 
47b. 
48 a. 
48b. 
49a. 
49b. 
50a. 
50b. 
Epigynum with two lines, diverging posterior (i955> fig- 3 1 ) 
Panama to Peru C. diplosticha Chamberlin and Ivie 
Epigynum otherwise 46 
Epigynum with a transverse dark mark posterior to two spots 
( 1955, fig. 29) ; Panama C. vail e nsis Levi 
Epigynum otherwise 47 
Epigynum with a transverse line anterior to two spots (i955> 
fig- 37) ,* southern Brazil C. sicki Levi 
Epigynum otherwise 48 
Epigynum with a pair of longitudinal lines in light area posterior 
to transverse dark mark (1955, fig. 35) dorsum of abdomen 
with two black long lines which fuse at posterior end ; Panama 
C. indicifer Chamberlin and Ivie 
Epigynum otherwise 49 
Carapace dark brown ; abdomen with a longitudinal dark band 
( 1955, fig. 20) ; Peru C. huanuco Levi 
Coloration otherwise 5° 
Abdomen without discrete white spots; Panama to Argentina 
C. vexabilis Keyserling 
Abdomen usually with white spots; North Carolina to Brazil 
C. albomaculata O. P. -Cambridge 
Chrysso albomaculata O. P. -Cambridge 
Argyrodes elegans Taczanowski, 1872, Horae Soc. Ent. Rossicae, 9: 118, pi. 5, 
fig. 11, $. Female syntypes from Uassa, French Guiana [now Rio Uaga, 
Amapa, Brazil] in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, examined. 
NEW SYNONYMY. Not T heridion elegans Blackwall, 1862. 
Chrysso albomaculata O. P. -Cambridge, 1882, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 429, 
fig. 6, $, $. Male, female syntypes from the Amazon in the Hope 
Department of Entomology, Oxford, examined. — Levi, 1955, Jour. New 
York Ent. Soc., 68: 61, figs. 1-4, 18-19, 25-27, 9, $ . 
Chrysso elegans, — Keyserling, 1884, Die Spinnen Amerikas, Theridiidae 2 
(1): 151. 
Theridion elegans, — Simon, 1903, Histoire Naturelle des Araignees, 2: 990. 
Theridion emendatum Roewer, 1942, Katalog der Araneae 1 : 429. New name 
for Argyrodes elegans Taczanowski. NEW SYNONYMY. 
Distribution. Southeastern United States, Mexico, West Indies, 
northeastern South America to Bahia, Brazil. 
Additional records. Lesser Antilles. Grenada: St. George’s (N. L. 
H. Krauss, AMNH). Trinidad: Mt. St. Benedict (J. G. Myers). 
Venezuela. Carabobo: San Esteban, 1888 (E. Simon, MNHN). 
Grand Elang. Dist. Fed.: hacienda Corosal, N of Mt. Silla, 1888 
(E. Simon, MNHN). British Guiana. Georgetown (A. M. Nadler, 
AMNH). Surinam. Paramaribo. Brazil. Ceara: Sierra Com- 
