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ARACHNIDA FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS RAtNHOW. 



In order to assist students I give, 

 herewith, a description and figure of 



the f-ii'iji/iK- '■ — 



Eiiiijijiie. — A short broad, tongue-like 

 process, proceeding from a small tuber- 

 cular eminence ; the edges of the 

 process slighly reflexed, and the ter- 

 minal extremity strongly so (tig. 6). 



Huh. — ? Island of Howla ; Port 

 Mackay, N. Queensland. 



Fiji- H. Aianeus aciimriiaOts, 

 L. K. ?, Epiftyne. 



Genus Gasteracantha (se)tsi< stricto), Sund. 

 Gastkkacaxtha scintillaxs, Butl. 



Gasteracayitha srliitiJIuiis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1873, p. 

 156, pi. iv., fig. 9. 



Hoh. — Russell (Froggatt) and Howla Islands. 



Gasteracaxtha scintillaxs, rar. coxcoLOR,* Rainb., var. )ioc. 



This form I cannot regard as other than a coloul' variety of 

 Butler's G. sfixtiJhaix. It agrees with the latter in size, 

 distribution and length of abdominal s])ines, and in the form of 

 the I' i>'' [III II I'- It will be readily distinguished from the tyj)ical 

 form by the absence of the central brick-red area (alMlominal) 

 and by its uniformly brilliant green colour. 



Ri(l). — Gaudalcanar (Froggatt) . 



GaSTKRACA.NTIIA MKlALl.li'A, PoC. 



G'isfcriirinilliK iiiduJUcii, Poc, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., i. (7), 

 1898, p. 465, pi. xix., fig. 5. 



lliil). — Bougaiiville and Howla Islands. 



Gasteracaxtua sigxifer, Poc. 



Gasfn;n;i,il/ni snjit ifer, Poc, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., i. (7), 1898, 

 p. 1-65, pi. xix., fig. 6. 



Jliili. — Russell (Froggatt), Ugi and llnwla Islands. 



