232 Prof. T. Thorell on some 
lat. front. circa 3; lg. abd. paullo plus 24, lat. ej. 12 millim. 
Ped. I. pene 43, II. paullo plus 33, IIL. 24, [V. 4 millim. longi; 
pat.+ tib. IV. pene 1} millim. 
Of this species Mr. Oates’s collection contaius a few females 
and a single male. 
5. Lpetra (Cyclosa) insulana, Costa. 
1834, Epeira insulana, Costa, Cenni Zool. &e. p. 65. 
1841. Epeira anseripes, Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 146. 
aaa ee jes aha ni Lue., Explor. de ’ Algérie, Arachn. p. 248, 
. XV. D2. 4. 
18h7, Cyrtophora melanura, Sim., “Etudes Arachn.: IX. Arachn. 
recueillis aux iles Philippines,” in Ann, de la Soc. Ent. de France, 5° - 
sér, vil. p. 72, pl. ili. fig. 9. 
1878. Epeira anseripes, Thor., Studi &c., IL. Ragni di Amboina, Joc. 
cit, xill, p. 81. 
The collection contains many examples of this very variable 
species, among them some few males. The “‘ scapus”’ of the 
vulva is wanting (broken) in almost all the adult females. 
For synonymy of petra insulana, Costa, see also 
Thorell, “‘Spindlar fran Nikobarerna och andra delar af Sédra 
Asien &c.,” in K. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Hand- 
lingar, xxiv. no. 2 (1891), p. 150 *. 
6. Epetra Théisii, Walck. 
1841. Epeira Théisii [ Theis], Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 53; 
Atlas, pl. xviii. fig. 4. 
Only a very young female specimen. 
7. Epeira punctigera, Dol. 
1857. Epewra punctigera, Dol. Bijdr., t. de Kennis d. Arachn. v. d. Ind. 
Archipel, in Tijdschr. v. Nederlandsch Indié, xiii. (ser. 3, iii.), p. 420. 
Two males, one adult, the other not fully developed. 
The full-grown specimen is rather large (10 millim. long), 
with the whole cephalothorax of a rusty-brown colour, and 
the back of the abdomen greyish yellow, without any other 
pattern than a small whitish A near the base and the ordi- 
nary four impressed brownish points. The belly is darker 
along the middie, with a broad transverse yellow band imme- 
diately behind the rima genitalis and two large yellow spots 
in front of the mamille, 
* “Bpeira tuberculata, Lue.,” is here a lapsus calami for E. tritubercu- 
data, Lue. 
