The Female of Bertrana Hieroglyphica Petrunkevitch (Araneae, Argiopidae)

Four species of this very interesting genus are known at the presenttime. Keyserling (1884) established the genus and described the firstknown species from a group of females from Peras, Brazil. Twoother species have been described from South America by Simon(1893); one of these was from Peru and the other from Para, Brazil.Dr. Petrunkevitch was the first to describe a male which was the onlyspecimen in the genus collected at the Wilcox camp on the San LorenzoRiver. I now have about five dozen specimens from variousparts of Panama and the Canal Zone with both sexes well represented.I have thought it worth while to publish a description of the femalewith very brief attention paid to the male