Four new species of the genus Novalena Chamberlin amp; Ivie, 1942 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from southeastern Mexican montane forests and first record of ocular anomaly in the genus.

Four new species of the spider genus Novalena Chamberlin Ivie, 1942 are described: N. bola sp. nov., N. mayae sp. nov., N. padillai sp. nov., and N. zootaxa sp. nov. All species were collected in montane forests in Chiapas, Mexico, and three of them occur in sympatry across their distribution range.