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Map 3. Distribution of T heridula puehla Levi, T. casas Levi, T. niger- 
rima (Petrunkevitch), and T. multiguttata Keyserling. 
Record. Brazil. Pernambuco: Recife (in the Senckenberg 
Museum). 
Paratheridula Levi 
Paratheridula Levi, 1957, Trans. Amer. Microscop. Soc., 76:105. Type 
species by original designation, Mysmena quadrimaculata Banks 
[ =Paratheridula perniciosa (Keyserling)]. 
Carapace as in Theridion, not modified. Chelicerae with two teeth 
on anterior margin, a small tooth on posterior of female. First leg 
longest, patella and tibia 1.3 to 1.4 times carapace length. Abdomen 
subspherical and without colulus. Male palpus very simple without 
conductor, median apophysis or radix, and having only a basal hema- 
todocha. 
The single species known is widely distributed ; it is suspected that 
it is introduced. 
Paratheridula perniciosa (Keyserling) 
Map 4 
T heridium perniciosum Keyserling, 1886, Die Spinnen Amerikas, Theridiidae, 
2 (2): 233, pi. 20, fig. 288, $. Female type from Blumenau, [Est. Santa 
Catarina], Brazil, in the British Museum (Natural History) ; examined. 
