Agelenid spiders of the Genus Cicurina

The genus Cicurina was erected by Menge in 18(59 for the species jlranea cicurea Fabricius (1793). Since then, various species from North America have been added to this genus. Petrunkevitch, in his catalog of 1911, listed 11 species from this continent. Exline, in a review of the Cicurinas in 1936, recognized 18 nearctic species. The material available to the authors of the present paper represents 50 species, more than half of them new. A number of species previously svnonomized have been resurrected, while one species (C. atomaria Simon) is synomized for the first time (under C. arcuata Keyserling). Cicurina madrynensis Tullgren from Patagonia is evidently not a Cicurina, as judged from the description and figures.