. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 494 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 141, No. 8 b^. Map 8. Distribution of Neoscono pratensis (Hentz) Neoscona prafensis (Hentz) Plate 1; Figures 101-110, 134; Map 8 Epeiia piatensis Hentz, 1847, T- Boston Natm". Hist. See, 5: 475, pi. 31, fig^ 11, 9. Female type from Massachusetts, destroyed. Emerton, 1884, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci., 6: 310, pi. 33, fig. 15, pi. 36, fig. 9, 9, c^. Keyserling, 1892, Spinnen Amerikas, 4: 184, pi. 9, fig. 136, 9. McCook, 1893, American Spiders, 3: 142, pi. 1, fig. 6
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 494 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 141, No. 8 b^. Map 8. Distribution of Neoscono pratensis (Hentz) Neoscona prafensis (Hentz) Plate 1; Figures 101-110, 134; Map 8 Epeiia piatensis Hentz, 1847, T- Boston Natm". Hist. See, 5: 475, pi. 31, fig^ 11, 9. Female type from Massachusetts, destroyed. Emerton, 1884, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci., 6: 310, pi. 33, fig. 15, pi. 36, fig. 9, 9, c^. Keyserling, 1892, Spinnen Amerikas, 4: 184, pi. 9, fig. 136, 9. McCook, 1893, American Spiders, 3: 142, pi. 1, fig. 6, 9, $â Emerton, 1902, Common Spiders, p. 167, fig. 396, 9 . Neoscona pratensis, â Comstock, 1912, Spider Book, p. 502, fig. 537, 9. 1940, Spider Book, rev. ed., p. 515, fig. 537, 9. Kaston, 1947, Bull. Connecticut Natur. Hist. Surv., 70: 247, fig. 774, 9. Female. Total length mm. Cara- pace mm long, mm wide. A female from Long Island, New York, mm total length. Carapace mm long, mm wide. First femur, mm; patella and tibia, mm; metatarsus, mm; tarsus, mm. Second patella and tibia, mm; diird, mm; fourth, mm. Male. Total length mm. Cara- pace mm long, mm wide. A male from Long Island, New York, mm total length. Carapace mm long, mm wide. First femur, mm; patella and tibia, mm; metatarsus, mm; tarsus, mm. Second patella and tibia, mm; third, mm; fourth, mm. Variation. There is considerable vari- ation in size. Diaiinosls. Both sexes can easily be separated from related allopatric N. neo- theis and N. oaxacensis and sympatric Neoscona species by the dorsal abdominal pattern, which consists of a median, lon- gitudinal dark band bordered by light colored longitudinal lines extending from the anterior end two-thirds to three-quar- ters of the way to the posterior end, and a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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