Biologia Centrali-Americana; Arachnida-Araneidea ... Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...pair. Hab. MEXICO, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith: 6 & 2 ). Three egg-cocoons accompanied this spider; they bear considerable resemblance in form to those of the European Ero atomaria, but the texture of the covering is closer and not so net-like. Mr. Smith has the following note on them, which is of great interest as showing that the spider rather belongs to the Epeiridae than to the Theridiidae, in which last family I had placed it before the facts related by Mr. Smith were known to me: --" Found in the forest on rocky land near the river in a hollow in a tree-trunk; the female was in a perpendicular, rather fine-meshed, geometrical web five inches in diameter, the centre drawn back by a line. Just behind it, suspended to a cross-line, were three little acorn-shaped pale brownish egg-cases; the male was on a line in front." Rather of a pear than acorn-shape.--O. P. C. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Arachn. Aran., March 1896. Y1 RHANE ', Thorell (tam. Salticidae). Rhane munda, sp. 11. Adult female, length 2 lines; length of cephalothorax 2 of a line. Uephalothora.v distinctly longer than broad, and broadest at the hinder part of the ocular area, which is distinctly broader than long; the posterior slope begins at the hinder row of eyes and declines at the same pitch as the ocular area slopes forwards to the anterior row; looked at in profile, the cephalothorax therefore forms an isosceles triangle, whose obtuse-angled vertex is made by the two slopes. The cephalothorax is dark reddish-brown in colour, thinly clothed with whitish, adpressed, somewhat scale-like hairs, and a few slender prominent bristly hairs on the ocular area. The eyes of the posterior row form a slightly longer line than those of the anterior row, and the second (or...