eyes on black rings,
the claws black, and the anterior edge of the vulva reddish. The A. M.
E. small, but little more than their diameter apart, about twice as far
from the plainly large A. S. E., P. M. E. nearly three diameters apart,
and only about two diameters from the P. S. E. Mandibles with only fine
hairs; legs long, and very slender, the first pair more than twice as
long as the body, all with very long, slender spines, and fine hairs.
Abdomen nearly twice as long as broad; vulva shows two reddish marks in
front, and behind is a large indistinct cavity. Length 3 mm.; leg I, 7.5
mm.

Type from 7 kilometers north of Vinales, Cuba, September, No. 21687,
Dept. Inv. Zoology. Paratypes from Cabanas, Cuba, September; Naguabo,
Porto Rico, March; and Mona Island, Feb. Nos. 21672 and 21682 to 21686,
Dept. Inv. Zoology.

~Bathyphantes semicincta~ n. sp.

Cephalothorax dull yellowish, a marginal dark seam, eyes on black spots;
mandibles dull yellowish. Legs pale yellowish, femora and coxae more
whitish, tibiae and patellae I and IV tipped with black. Sternum
yellowish, margined with dark. Abdomen above gray, with scattered white
spots and larger black patches; a basal black spot each side, and two
others each side toward tip, the last larger and extending down on sides
to near the spinnerets; a large, oblique, dark spot on pleura, and one
near base; venter with a large, median blackish spot, concave in front,
dark on sides of genital groove. Legs I and II very long, much longer
than others, all with many long, fine but stiff, hairs and some erect
bristles on tibiae, a long one at top of each patella above and one near
middle of tibia above. Length 1.8 mm.

From 7 kilometers north of Vinales, Cuba, September. No. 21673, Dept.
Inv. Zoology.

~Epeira gundlachi~ n. sp.

Cephalothorax, legs, sternum, mandibles, and palpi whitish; tarsi, and
sometimes metatarsi, slightly infuscated; sternum sometimes more
yellowish, no markings. Abdomen white above and below. Eyes small;
posterior row recurved, subequal in size, the P. M. E. one half nearer
to each other than to the S. E. and about three diameters apart; the
four M. E. make a square; A. S. E. smaller than other eyes, close to P.
S. E., fully as far from A. M. E. as these from each other. Legs with
many fine white bristles, and a few black spines, two on inner side of
femur I near tip, no spines in front nor below on femora, nor below on
tibiae I and II, a few above o