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pink band behind which laterally spreads on to the sides of the 

 abdomen ; upper side yellow, with indistinct transverse fuscous 

 stripes. Carapace and sternum without tubercles. Legs long and 

 thin. Abdomen twice as long as broad, posteriorly much elevated 

 above the spinners. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 17, carapace 5, 1st leg 34. 



Loc. North-eastern India : Darjiling ( Wroughtori), Shillong 

 (Heaven}. Burma (Fea). Also Japan, China, Formosa. 



229. Nephila malabarensis, Walck. Ins. Apt. ii, p. 103, 1837(Epeira) 

 Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxyiii, p. 188, 1890 (Nephilengys) . 



$ . Colour : carapace black, scantily clothed with yellow hairs ; 

 legs yellowish, banded with black ; sternum yellow ; abdomen 

 ornamented with two pairs of yellow spots below, greyish brown 

 mottled with darker tints above. Carapace with head high, 

 granular, without tubercles. No tubercle on sternum. Legs 

 shorter, femur of 1st scarcely longer than carapace, the entire leg 

 only about four times as long. Abdomen evenly oval, one-third 

 longer than wide. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 22, carapace 10, 1st leg 38. 



Loc. Ceylon : Puuduloya (6r'rmi); Peradeniya, Jaffna (Sarasin) 

 Trincomali (Yerbury). India : Madatory and Trivandrum (Fer- 

 guson)- Ootacamund (Hampson). Burma: Tharrawaddy, Tenas- 

 serim, &c. (Oates 4" Feu). Nicobar Islands. Thence eastwards 

 to Australia. 



Genus HERENNIA, Thorell. 



Herennia, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, x, p. 70, 1 877 ; Simon, Hist. 

 Nat. Araiffn. i, p. 759, 1894. 



Carapace flat ; eyes not extending across 

 the frontal area ; quadrangle scarcely 

 longer than wide; eyes of posterior line 

 nearly straight. Abdomen coriaceous, 

 flattish above, with sharply defined, often 

 lobate lateral margins, impressed with 

 radially arranged lines of spots. Male 

 with simple palpus. 



Type, H. ornatissima, Doleschall. 



230. Herennia ornatissima, Doleschall, Verh. 

 Nat. Vereen. Nederland. Indie, v, no. 5, 

 p. 32, 1859 : multipuncta, id. torn. cit. 

 p. 32, t. xi, fig. 1 (Epeira) ; Thorell, Ann. 

 Mus. Genova, xxv, p.166, 1887 (Herennia) 

 (for synonymy). 



$ . Colour : carapace blackish, with 

 broadly yellow border and somewhat 

 V-shaped median yellow patch, covered 

 Fig 69 Herennia w ^ n white hair ; legs yellowish, with apices 

 z, $ , X 2. of segments dark ; sternum orange-yellow ; 



ttssima, 



