116 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



SteDhHiii. — Broad, sliield-sliaped, arched, posterior extremity 

 acuminate, anterior angles and sides straw-yellow, median area 

 dark brown ; two large tubercles in front, two more on each 

 side, and one at apex ; the tubercles straw-yellow. Abdumeii. — 

 Overhanging base of cephalothorax, strongly arched, sub- 

 globose, and furnished with two large acuminate humeral 

 tubercles, the inner sides of which are arched, and the outer 

 depressed; in form the tubercles suggest the ears of a cat; 

 the surface of the abdomen both above, laterally and beneath 

 is dark brown, nearly black, with irregular pale yellow and 

 greyish markings of various sizes ; the general colour and 

 scheme of ornamentation imparts a decidedly lichen-like 

 appeaiance. Eplijynum. — A pale yellow tubercle, arched, 

 somewhat parallel sided, with deep pit, protected by an over- 

 hanging curved lip. 



'■'■ Ova-sacs suspended in a horizontal line in forest tree" 

 (collector's note). Tliere are three of these, each of which is 

 spherical, closelj^ woven, but surrounded with a quantity of 

 loose fibrous silk. Each egg-sac is about half the size of an 

 ordinary pea. 



Hah. — Gordon vale, forest, May 30, 1913. 



Genus Gasteracantha, Sand. 



Gastkracantha sacerdotalis, L. Koch. 



Gasteracantha sacerdotalis, L. Koch, Die Arach. des Austr., i., 

 1871, p. 198, pi. xviii., tig. 1. 



Obs. — Four specimens wei'e collected, and these show con- 

 siderable colour variation. 



Hab Gordon vale, forest, June 30, August 22, and Sept- 

 ember 9, 1912. 



Gasteracantha taeniata, Walch 



Flectaua taoiiata, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Ins., Apt., ii., 1837, 

 p. 169. 



Gasteracimlha vioievta, It. Koch, Die Arach. des Austr., i., 

 1871, p. 5, pi. i., tig. 3. ; Butl., Tians. Ent. Soc, 1873, 



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