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spine beyond them. There is also a ventral subapical spine, but 

 this is little or no stouter than the other spines with which all the 

 legs are armed. 



Araneus cxcelsus, Simon. 



Glyptogona excelsa, Simon, 1S89, p, 337. 

 Araneus excehtis, Simon, 1892 a, p. 820. 



A common and widely distributed little spider originally 

 described from the Himalayas. It is mostly found in shady 



Gasteracantha hasseltii, Koch. 



Gasteracaiifha hasseltii, Pocock, looii, p. 233. 



Gasteracantha brevispina, Doleschall. 

 PI. xix, 7-14. 



Gasteracantha bi'evispiiia, Pocock, 1000. p. 235. 



Both the above species of Gasteracantha are to be found seated 

 in their orb-webs in the jungle. 



The colour varies in the same way as it does in spiders of the 

 nauticns group of Araneus (see above, p. 414). This is illustrated 

 in pi. xix, figs. 7-14. 



Paraplectana maritata, Cambridge. 



Pat-aplectana inaritata, Cambridge. 1877, pp. 32-34, pi. \ii, figs. 7 a-e. 

 uigroanalis. Van Hasselt, 1882, pp. 15-16, p). i, fig-. 3. 

 maritata, Thorell, 1895, p 2og. 



A minute yellow and black spider with the dorsal surface of 

 the abdomen much flattened. 



Family Thomisidae. 



Several species occur on Barkuda Island, but there is nothing 

 sufficiently noteworthy for record concerning them, and I am not 

 at present able to identifj- them. 



Family Clubionidae. 

 Sparassus lamarcki, Latreille. 



Sparassus laniarclii, Pocock, 19011, p. 2(17. 



A large spider of a somewhat rich brown colour, with densely 

 scopulate tarsi and metatasi. It lives among foliage, where it 

 makes its lair by spinning loosely together the edges of one or 

 two big leaves. A female was found in the clutches of a fossorial 

 wasp much smaller than itself. Two males were found in the 

 house in August ; in neither of them is the black median area on 

 the ventral surface of the abdomen as well developed as in the 

 female, and in one it is practically non-existant. Its identity is. 



