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February 1990 (J. Reddell, M. Reyes), 4 immature;16 February 1990 (J. Reddell, M. Reyes), 2 immature;Off Campus Cave, 8 April 1989 (W. Elliott, J.Reddell, M. Reyes), 2 immature; Steam Cave, 7July 1963 (J. Reddell, B. Russell), 2 immature;Three-Mile Cave, 30 March 1965 (J. Reddell), Iimmature; Walsh Ranch Cave, 24 August 1963 (J.Reddell, B. Russell), 1 immature; Williams Cave,24 August 1963 (J. Reddell, B. Russell), I immature;Wolf's Cave, 7 August 1983 (W. Elliott, B.Vinson, D. Pate), penultimate male.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe research material on which this paper isbased has been brought together by friends and colleaguesover a period of many years. One of the firststudents was Wilton Ivie who was responsible forbasic work on the cicurine spiders and began studyof the Cicurella complex until his untimely death.The active field contributors have been speleologistslong devoted to systematic study of caves and cavefaunas. In this case no better reason for intensivestudy of cave cicurellas are the spiders themselveswhich have responded to cave stimuli to produce anunparalleled total of more than fifty completelyeyeless taxa within a quite limited geographical area.Caving demands devotion to arduous and often dangerousexcursions into many kinds of caves. Amongthe first Texas cave students were James R. Reddelland Robert W. Mitchell, who have devoted much oftheir field life to cave research in the United Statesand Mexico. We salute these and the many otherstudents as assistants during years of caving; manyof their names will be found among the describedtaxa. I am grateful to the following Museum caretakersfor loans of types and other valuable specimens,and for the many special favors during thisstudy: Dr. W. G. Reeder, Texas Memorial Museum(TMM), Austin, Texas; Dr. Norman Platnick,American Museum of Natural History (AMNH),New York; Mr. Darrell Ubick, California Academyof Sciences (CAS), San Francisco.I am especially grateful for the cooperation andkindness of James R. Reddell during the process oforganizing this study and bringing it to completion.LITERATURE CITEDBarr, T.C., Jr.• and J.R. Holsinger. 1985. Speciation in cavefaunas. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 16:313-337.Bonnet, P. 1956. Bibliographia Araneorum, 2(G-M), pp.1927-3026. Toulouse.Brignoli, P.M. 1983. A catalogue of the Araneae describedbetween 1940 and 1981. London: Manchester Univ. Press.518 pp.Chamberlin, R.V. 1933. On a new eyeless spider of the familyLinyphiidae from Potter Creek Cave, California. Pan-PacificEntomol.,9:122-124.Chamberlin, R.V., and W. Ivie. 1940. Agelenid spiders of thegenus Cicurina. Bull. Univ. Utah, BioI. Ser., 30:1-107.Comstock, J.H. 1912. The spider book. Garden City, NewYork: Doubleday, Page & Co. 721 pp., 771 figs.Exline, H. 1936. Nearctic spiders of the genus Cicurina Menge.American Mus. Novitates, no. 850. 25 pp.Forster, R.R. 1970. The spiders of New Zealand, Part III. OtagoMus. Bull., 3:1-184.Gertsch, W.J. 1935. Spiders from the southwestern United Stateswith descriptions of new species. American Mus. Novitates,no. 792. 31 pp.Gertsch, W.J. 1971. A report on some Mexican cave spiders.Assoc. Mexican Cave Stud. Bull., 4:47-111.Gertsch, W.J. 1974. The spider family Leptonetidae in NorthAmerica. J. Arachnol., 1: 145-203.Gertsch, W.J. 1977. Report on cavernicole and epigean spidersfrom the Yucatan Peninsula. Assoc. Mexican Cave Stud.Bull., 6:103-131.Gertsch, W.J. 1984. The spider family Nesticidae (Araneae) inNorth America, Central America, and the West Indies. TexasMem. Mus. Bull., 31. 91 pp.Gertsch, W.J., and L.I. Davis. 1936. Spiders of the southwesternUnited States with descriptions of new spiders. AmericanMus. Novitates, no. 1936, pp. 1-31,39 figs.Ivie, W. 1965. The spiders of the genus lslandiana (Linyphiidae,Erigoninae). American Mus. Novitates, no. 2221. 25 pp.Keyserling, E. 1886. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae, partU. Nurnberg, 1886,2(2):1-295, pis. I-XI.Lehtinen, P.T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders andsome allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborderAraneomorphae. Annal. ZooI. Fennici, 4:199-468,figs. 1-524.Menge, A. 1871. Preussische Spinnen, IV. Schr. naturf. Ges.Danzig, N.F., 2:265-296.Nicholas, Bro. G. 1960. Checklist of macroscopic troglobiticorganisms of the United States. American MidI. Nat., 64:123-160.Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spidersof North, Central and South America, etc .... Bull. AmericanMus. Nat. Hist., 19.791 pp.Platnick, N.I. 1989. Advances in spider taxonomy. Manchester:Manchester Univ. Press. 720 pp.Simon, E. 1898. Histoire naturelle des Araignees, 2(2): 193-380.Paris.Tellkampf, T. 1844. Beschreibung einiger neuer in der MammuthH6hlein Kentucky aufgefundener Gattungen von Gliedertieren.Arch. Naturg., 10(1):318-322, pI. VIII.Vogel, B.R. 1967. A list of new North American spiders.American Entomol. Soc., Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia. 196pp.This is publication No. N.S.-57 of the Texas Memorial Museum.122