342 AEACHNIDAN FAUNA OP BRITISH NEW GUINEA, 



relieved by two large lateral patches of white situated about 

 midway between epigyne and spinners. 



Ejyiyyne a dark brown, glossy, tubercular eminence, from the 

 anterior angle of which there is a narrow, elongated, obtuse- 

 pointed protuberance, the latter being directed towards the 

 spinners. 



Loc. — Neneba, 9th November, 1896. 



Genus Gasteracantha, Sund. 



32. Gasteracantha t^niata, Walck. 

 Loc. — Vanapa Valley; March, 1897. 



33. Gasteracantha crucigera, Bradley, 

 ^oc— Boirave, at 1,500ft.; July, 1896. 



34. Gasteracantha hepatica, L. Koch. 

 Loc. — Panneata. 



Family THOMISID^. 



Subfamily MISUMENIN.5:. 



Genus M i s u M e N a, Latr. 



35. MisuMENA PUSTULOSA, L. Koch. 



Loc. — Rossel Island, Louisiade Group; 11th July, 1890. 



36. MiSUMENA BIPUNCTATA, Sp.nOV. 



(Plate VII., fig. 7.) 



9. Cephalothorax 3-4 mm. long, 3-5 mm, broad ; abdomen 

 6'5 mm. long, 9 5 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax arched, broader than long, yellow-brown with a 

 broad median longitudinal patch of pale yellow, and dark brown 

 wavy striations commencing at ocular area; of these the two lateral 

 bars run to near the base of the cephalothorax, and the inner 

 bars, of which there are four, terminate at junction of cephalic 

 and thoracic segments. Caput finely granulated, receding, 

 truncated in front. Clypeus arched, broad, finely granulated. 

 Marginal band rather broad, pale yellowish. 



