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Genus Gasteracantha Sundevall. 
Gasteracantha arcuata (Fabr.) 
Ent. Syst. III, p. 425, No. 65; and subsequent authors. 
Loc. Borneo, Baram River. 
Common in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Malacca etc. 
Gasteracantha clavatrix (Walck.) 
IL OO, ne, Bi 
Walckenaer, Ins. Apt. II, p. 186 (1841); Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova X, p. 349 (1877); 
see also O. P. Cambridge, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 289. 
Loc. Celebes, Minahassa. 
Gasteracantha pseudoflava Simon. 
Ann, Soc. Ent. France, 1877, p. 228, pl. III, fig. 4. 
This species was originally described from Halmahera (Gilolo.. Dr. Kükenthal ob- 
tained examples at the following localities in the island: Soah Konorah, Galela, Patani. 
Gasteracantha Bene Simon. 
Pl. XXV, fie. 2. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1877, p. 227 and 229. 
Previously recorded from Halmahera. Many examples were collected at the following 
localities: Oba, Todahe, Soah Konorah, Tobelo and Patani. 
The species was based. upon a mutilated specimen consisting only of the abdomen. 
It may consequently be added that the femora of the legs are brownish-red in colour and 
contrast somewhat foreibly with the black of the cephalothorax. There is frequently a yellow 
spot on the sternum and the pale spot on the lower side of the abdomen surrounding the 
tubercle is usually a deep brownish red tint. 
In colouring and many other features @. cöircumnotata elosely resembles two examples of 
the genus from Sorong in New Guinea, which were identified by Thorell as @. variegata 
Walck. It differs, however, in having all the abdominal spines longer and thinner. 
Gasteracantha ternatensis Thor. 
Ann. Mus. Genova XVII, p. 18 (1881). 
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