NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN ARANEID.E — RAINBOW. 229 



of this species, which was collected at Sydney, 

 was in the Godeffroy Museum, but its whereabouts 

 now is not known. 



Cyrtarachind cocoons that have been collected 

 are described as being globose and attached to a 

 long peduncle. Several such have been forwarded 

 to me from time to time, but always, unfor- 

 tunately, without the spider (Fig. 14). 



Glyptocraniea? includes four genera, two of 

 whicli occur in Australia, viz., Ordyarius, Keys., Fig. 14. Cocoon of 

 and Dicrosticlius, E. Sim. The former occurs in 

 " India et ins. ; Taprobane (Hobsoni Cb.) ; Birmania (sexspi- 

 nosa Th.) ; ins. Amboina (clypeatus E. Sim.) ; Nova Hollandia 

 (monstrosus Keyserl.)"; 32 Dicrostichus, on the other hand, occurs 

 only in "Nova Hollandia."' 1 "' 



Notwithstanding its wide range, very few species of Ordgarius 

 have been described. These are 0. hobsoni, Cambr., from India 

 and Ceylon; 0. sexspinosa, Thor., from Burinah ; 0. clypeatus, 

 E. Sim., from Amboina ; and 0. monstrosus, Keys., from Peak 

 Downs, Queensland. Besides these, Simon says he has one 

 (unnamed) in his collection from Java. 



Dicrostichus includes three species and one variety, viz., D. 

 furcatus, Camb., and its variety dislinctus, mihi ; also D caliyi- 

 nosus, mihi ; aud D. maynijicus, mihi. 



The retitelarian web, egg-bags, and leaf-nest (the latter in the 

 form of a cornucopia) have already been described and figured by 

 me. 34 I now have the pleasure of figuring and describing the 

 nest of D. furcatus (Plate Ixiv.). The web of this species, like 

 that of D. maynijicus, is small and of the retitelarian type, the 

 lines of which are closely woven amongst the leaves of the plant 

 upon which the spider has become domiciled. On referring to 

 the right-hand side of the plate, a little above the spider, the 

 reader will perceive the body of a wasp which has become entoiled 

 in the outer lines of the snare. The nest or retreat is among the 

 thick maze of leaves at the top of the plate. It is very closely 

 and densely woven, but is not nearly so neat a structure as that 

 made by 1). maynijicus. It will be noted on referring to the 

 plate that the spider does not rest in its snare after the manner 

 of other Argiopids, but with the head upwards. Some years ago 



;; -Simon — Loc. cit., p. 885. 

 33 Simon — Loc. cit., p. SS6. 



34 Rainbow — Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxiii., 1897, p. 53S, figs. 2 

 and 3. 



