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example closely resembles what Thorell calls the forma principalis, having the shoul- 
der spikes red with a fine yellow line passing from one to the other and defining 
posteriorly the black area lying in front of the shoulders; the apex of the abdomen, moreover, 
has a large black patch on each side of it and these two are defined on their inner margins 
by a fine yellow line. In a second specimen the upper side of the abdomen is a uniform 
blackish-brown ornamented with four yellow spots, one larger on each side behind the shoulder 
spike and one on each side in front of the apex. In other examples, on the contrary, the 
whole of the upper surface between the shoulder-points and the apex is reddish or yello- 
wish and variegated with black, the black forming a median longitudinal stripe between and 
in front of the shoulders, and, in one example, traceable as such, far back towards the tail; 
whereas in the second specimen, in which the black is more diffused posteriorly, it is defi- 
ned on each side by a thin sinuous yellow line which passes backwards from the shoulder- 
points to the caudal prolongation. 
The variability in pattern of the abdomen in species allied to caput-lupi seems 
very great, and bearing it in mind one would be inclined to doubt the specific distinetion 
of-such forms as A. radja (Dol.), dehaani (Dol.), which seem to differ only in pattern. Again 
out of four examples that I identify as A. kandarensis in the Britisı Museum, two only exhibit 
in completeness the conspieuous dark dorsal band described by Thorell, the band being 
entirely absent in one of the others, and much reduced in the fourth. 
Araneus unicolor (Doleschall). 
Ja, OO, ine, 20), 
Epeira wnicolor Doleschall, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Indi& XIII, p. 419 (1857); id. Acta 
Soe. Sei. Indo-Neerland. V, pl. II, fig. 1 (1859); Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova XIII, p. 54 (1878). 
A partially mutilated, though adult, female example measuring about 13 mm in length 
obtained by Dr. Kükenthal at Patani in Halmahera and two adult females measuring 23 mm, 
at Soa Konorra in the same island, are referred to this species. 
Araneus exanthematicus (Doleschall). 
Acta Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerland. V, p. 38, pl. III, fig. 3 and pl. XI, fig. 4 (1859); see 
also Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova XIII, p. 55 ete., 1878. 
A single female example from Minahassa in Celebes. Previously recorded from 
Buitenzorg in Java and Amboina. 
