AKArnMPA KKiiM THK SUI,i>M(iN |SI,AN1>S HAlXHdVV. 11 



IJcinis Araiieus, Clcrrl,-. 



AhANKUS THKIS,* ]\'"lrl,\ 



IJpeIrn llnus, Walck., Hist. Nat., Ins., Apt., ii., 1837, p. 53, 

 pi. xviii., tig. 4-. 



Ein'Ini iinnninrrr,!, Walck., Hist. Nat. Ins., Apt., iv., 1847, !>. 



469. 

 Ej'ri'rn unuHjurecd, L. K., Die Aracli. Austr., i., 1871, p. 85, 



pi. vii., tigs. 4, 4<(i, 5, b<i. 



>/„/,._Russell Island (Froggatt). Common througliout 

 Polynesia ; occurs also in "Queensland. 



Araneus luuuhhis, * Walck. 

 Ei»'lni hff/Hhrlx, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Ins., ii., 1837, p. 34. 



Epeln, huhnj.itrix, L. K., Die Aracli. Austv., i., 1871, p. 66, 

 pi. v., tigs. 8, 8(s 9ii. 

 7/„/,._Rl^ssell Island (Froggatt). Other localities are Isle 

 of France, and North Queensland. 



Araneus acuminatus,* L. K. ? 

 (Fig. 6.) 

 Epe'ini nriiiii'nrata, L. K., Die Arach. Austr., i., 1871, p. 109, 

 pi. ix., tigs. 2, '2a, 21). 

 The form described and tigured by Koch was a male ; the 

 specimen before me is a female, but the latter agrees so closely 

 with the description and tigure of the former, that in the 

 absence of specimens of both sexes, I hesitate to describe it as 

 xp. HOC. The f»male of urinitiinttus has not yet been recorded, 

 and notwithstanding the fact that Koch's locality was Port 

 Mackay, North Queensland, and the locality from whence the 

 specimen under discussion was obtained was the Island of 

 Howla, it is not at all unreasonable to assume that the two 

 forms are conspecitic, especially when we bear in mind that the 

 fauna of the Solomon Island Archipelago, to quote Pocock, 

 " closely resembles, so far as genera, and also so far as species 

 are concerned, that of Papua and the neighbouring islands of 

 the Austro-Malayan seas.** 



e Pocock— Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), i, 1898, p. 458. 



