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above and between the first pair of spots a scheme of delicate 

 tracery commences, and this consists of a median line running to 

 the posterior extremity; near the second pair of spots two lateral 

 lines branch out, and these, cutting right through the third pair 

 of spots, continue to posterior extremity; below the third pair, 

 again, two smaller lines branch out from the median line, and 

 unite with the lateral lines just described; below the colour is 

 somewhat darker. 



Epigyne a small, dark brown, obtusely pointed, overhanging 

 lip. 



Genus Gasteracaxtha, Sund. 



10. Gasteracantha hebridisia, Butl. — To his description Mr. 

 Butler appends the following note: — "Somewhat intermediate 

 in character between G. tcaniata and G. tvestringii, and remarkable 

 for the unique colouration of the ventral surface of the abdomen."* 



Genus Eunesiotes, gen.nov. 



Closely allied to Poecilopachys, E. Sim. 



C ephalothorax rather longer than broad, and strongly arched. 

 Caput high, but sloping forward. Clypeus broad, arched, sloping 

 posteriorly. 



Eyes prominent, arranged in three groups of 2, 4, 2 ; lateral 

 eyes minute and contiguous. 



Legs short, slender, tapering. Relative lengths : 1 = 2, 4, 3. 



Maxilloi short, broad, divergent. 



Labium nearly twice as long as it is broad, moderately convex, 

 and rounded off at apex . 



Sternum shield-shaped, moderately arched, tuberculated later- 

 ally. 



Abdomen obtusely triangular, broader than long, strongly 

 arched, devoid of tubercles, the superior surface ornamented with 

 cicatrose spots or depressions. 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873. Mr. A. (I. Butler's " Monographic List of 

 'Gasteracantlia," p. 166. 



