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Argiope protensa. 



Koch, 1. c. p. 211, t. xviii, fig. 8, 8a, 8b (1872). 



Anepsia rhomhoides. 



Koch, 1. c. p. 46, t. iii, fig. 8 (1871). 



Upeira felina, n. sp. PI. x. figs. 1, 2. 



? Colours — Cephalothorax dull olive-brown, clothed 

 all over with short greyish hairs ; mandibles yellowish- 

 olive beconung reddish towards the extremities, tip and 

 moveal)le claw piceous ; maxillae and mouth shining clay- 

 colour ; sternum greyish-brown, with central longitudinal 

 clay-coloured spot : abdomen above briglit mahogany-red, 

 ochraceous dotted with black in front, also a whitish 

 ochraceous almost reniform spot behind the dorsal black 

 tuliercles ; from the tubercles backward an indistinct 

 diamond pattern of grey lines ; several longitudinal central 

 dots and a triangular zigzag series on each side, silvery- 

 white ; sides dark-brown, becoming greyish towards the 

 Ijase, with an oblique series of three bisinuate markings, a 

 number of short oblique parallel liturse, and several dots, 

 silvery-whitish ; venter blackish with a central oblong 

 darker area, bordered on each side by an irregular white 

 line, and crossed down the middle by eight white dots in 

 a douljle series ; legs pitchy, femora clothed with short 

 f/Gstaceous hairs, tibice and tarsi with short blackish bristles, 

 tibite with a whitish band near the base, tarsi gTcyish at 

 the base. 



Cephalothorax circular, truncated in front, and slightly 

 excavated behind, central depression large, an impressed 

 oblique line from each side of it to the posterior margin of 

 the caput, the latter flat with a central longitudinal ridge 

 running backwards from the central oculiferous tubercle, 

 which is slightly more prominent tlian the lateral 

 tubercles ; anterior central pair of eyes rather smaller than 

 the posterior pair, nearer to one another than to the latter, 

 and slightly nearer than the latter are to one another 

 lateral eyes placed near together, somewhat obliquely, equal 

 in size to the anterior central pair ; mandibles cylindrical, 

 terminal moveable claw small ; sternum irregularly arched 

 in front, pyramidal beliind : abdomen oval, abruptly and 



