198 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



ACROASPIS TUBERCULIFERA, Thar. 



Acroaspis tuberculifera, Thor., Studi Ragni Mai. e Papuani, i., 

 1881, p. 52. 

 Hob. — Cape York, N. Queensland. 



Geiius Gasteracantha (Sensu siricto), Sund. 



(=Plectana, Walck. ; Augusta, O. P. Cambr. ; uEtrocantha, 

 Karsch. ; Isoxya, Simon ; Stanneoc/atis, Butler ; also the 

 subgenera : Tetracantha, Collacautha, Atelacantha, Isacautha, 

 Actinacantha, and Macrocantha, Simon ; Anchacautha and 

 Tatacantha, Butl. ; Thelacantha, von Has.). 

 Obs. — Gasteracantha cancriformis, Linn., is the type species of 



this genus. 



Gasteracantha minax, Thor. 



Gasteracantha minax, Thor., Oefv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xv. 



(1859), p. 301 ; Konl. Svenska Fregatten Engenies Resa 



Zool. Arach., i., 1865, p. 21. 

 Gasteracantha flavomaculata, Keys., Verh. der K.K. zool. -hot. 



Ges Wien., 1865, p. 801, tab. xix., figs. 8, 9. 

 Gasteracantha minax, Rainbow, Rec. Austr. JMus., vii., 4, 1909, 



p. 226, pi. lxiii., figs. 1, 2, 3. 

 /fab. — New South Wales, Victoria, S. and W. Australia. 



Gasteracantha minax, var. astrigera, L. Koch. 



Gasteracantha astrigera, L. Koch, Die Aracli. des Austr., i., 1871, 



p. 1-1, tab. i., figs. 9, 9«. 

 Gasteracantha minax, var. astrigera, Hogg, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 



xiii., 1900, p. 79. 

 Gasteracantha minax, var. astrigera, Rainbow, Rec. Austr. Mus., 



vii., 4, 1909, p. 227. 

 Hob. — New South Wales and Victoria. 



Gasteracantha minax, var. lugubris, L. Koch. 



Gasteracantha lugubris, L. Koch, Die Aracli. des Austr., i., 1871, 



tab. i., tig. 8. 

 Gasteracantha miuax, var. lugubris, Hogg, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 



xiii., 1900, p. 79. 



