NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN ARANEID.E — RAINBOW. 233 



armed with spines, and only two species are at present known 

 that possess a vertical tubercle, which arises from the middle of 

 the dorsal surface of the abdomen like a column ; they are 

 Dolophones turriyera, L.K.. and D. nasalis, Butl. Generally 

 speaking, the abdomen is flat, broad, and transversely oval or 

 cordiform. 



Two genera are included in this group, viz., Dolophones, Walck. 

 =Tholia, L.K., and Pitharatus, K. Sim. The former is dis- 

 tributed over " Ins. Ceram ; ins. Paem. ; N. Hollandia ; and N. 

 Caledonia;'' and the latter "Ins. Java et pen. Malayana." 47 



Of Australian species D. testudinea, L. K., has been recorded 

 from Port Mackay and Bowen, but it has also been collected in 

 New Caledonia; D. turriyera, L.K., from Brisbane, and to that 

 locality I now add : Sydney, Parramatta ; D. clypeata, L.K., 

 Queensland ; D. noctacantha, Walck , Sydney ; I), nasalis, Butl., 

 Queensland ; D. peltata, Keys., ? locality ; D. tuberculata, Keys., 

 no locality given, but I have receive. 1 specimens from Bungen- 

 dore. New South Wales collected by Mr. A. M. Lea ; D. pilosa, 

 Keys., from Peak Downs, Queensland, to which 1 now add 

 Antonio, near Rydal, New South Wales, collected by .Mr. S. J. 

 H. Moreau ; D. mammeata, Keys., Australia; D coni/'era, Keys., 

 from Peak Downs; and D. simpla, Keys., Sydney. 



The locality from whence D.clypeata was obtained was unknown 

 to Koch, who states at the foot of his diagnosis : — " Vaterland: 1 

 Zwei. Examplare in K. K. Museum zu Wien " ;' 8 and ECeyser- 

 ling, in respect of his species, D. mammeata, vaguely records it 

 as " Australien." 19 



The webs, nests, and cocoons of Dolophones have not been 

 recorded. On referring to my note-book, 1 And that in November, 

 1890, I collected a specimen of D. testudinea at Belle Vue Hill, 

 Sydney, from an orbicular web. 



Anapea? is the last section into which this great family is 

 divided. It is split up into four genera, ouly one of which occurs 

 in Australia. This genus, Chasmocephalon, the distribution of 

 which is " Africa max. austr.; N. Hollandia," 50 was founded by 

 Cambridge in 1889 51 for the reception of a West Australian 

 species which he named ueylectum, and which is the only one of 

 the group, so far as we know at present, occurring in Australia. 



4 7 Simon— Lot: at., p. 904. 



48 Kooh.— Die Arach. Austr., i., 1S71, p. 24. 



± 9 Keyserling— Op. cit., Suppl., ]8S6, p. 109. 



50 Simon— Loc. cit., p. 92S. 



5 1 Cambridge— Proc. Zool. Soc, 1889, p. 45. 



