226 AEGYOPIBA'. 



242. Araneus moluccensis, Doleschall, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. 



Indie, xiii, p. 418, 1857 ; Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii, p. 40, 

 1878 (for synonymy) (Epeira). 



Colour : carapace and limbs blackish, the former, and to a less 

 extent the latter, clothed with whitish hairs ; coxa) mostly yellow, 

 sternum with yellow line ; abdomen yellow in front above, rest of 

 the dorsal surface thickly spotted and lined with yellow on a black 

 ground ; blackish below. Carapace flatfish ; ocular quadrangle 

 parallel-sided, much longer than wide ; eyes of posterior line 

 nearly straight, lateral eyes narrowly separated. Legs strong, 

 long, scarcely spined, furnished with stiff bristles. Abdomen 

 evenly oval, with two distinct shoulder-points in front. Vulva 

 without scape. 



Total length 24 mm. 



Log. Ceylon : Kellar (Yerbury), &c. India : Trivandrum 

 {Ferguson), Nilgiri Hills {Daly). Burma : Tharravvaddy, Eangoon, 

 Moulmein (Oates fy Feci). Indo- and Austro-Malaysia. 



243. Araneus fese, Thorell, Ami. Mus. Genova, xxv, p. 173, 1887 ; id. 



Spiders of Burma, p. 170, 1895 (Euetria). 



Allied to A. moluccensis, but smaller and paler ; carapace and 

 legs ochre, femora banded above longitudinally ; abdomen whitish 

 above, with median longitudinal black band broken up by paler 

 markings and bordered with white ; sides ornamented with white 

 bands ; lower surface black, spotted and bordered with white. 

 Carapace with eyes of posterior line distinctly procurved ; laterals 

 in contact. Legs long and slender, armed with slender spines. 

 Abdomen longer, narrower, more prominent posteriorly above 

 spinners. 



Total leugth 13 mm. 



Loc. Burma: Tharrawaddy, Rangoon (Oates), Bhaino (Fea). 



244. Araneus cicatrosus, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxviii, p. 242, t. xx, 



fig. 5, 1869 : salebrosa, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii, p. 48, 1878 

 (Epeira) : adspersata, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits.xxx.\i, p. 284, t. x, 

 fig. 8, 1892 (Meta). 



Coloured much as in A. few, but with the carapace banded with 

 black, the legs thickly spotted with black, and the median ab- 

 dominal band restricted to the posterior third of the dorsal surface. 

 Carapace less flat ; eyes of posterior line slightly recurved ; 

 laterals very distinctly separated. Abdomen furnished above in its 

 anterior half with two pairs of conical erect tubercles arranged in 

 a square. 



Total length 6 mm. 



Loc. India : Chingleput (Jambunatlian), Kanara, N.-isik (Millet), 

 Allahabad (Ityves) ; Calcutta (Stoliczka). Burma : Tharrawaddy, 

 Moulmein (Oates). Indo- and Austro-Malaysia. 



245. Araneus citricola, Forsk&l, Descript. Anim. etc. p. 86, 1775 ; id. 



Icones rer. nat. t. xxiv, fig. D, 1776 (Aranea) ; Thorell, Spiders of 

 Burma, p. 172, 1895 (for synonymy) (Epeira). 



