222 AEGYOPID-E. 



patches relieved by small white spots ; ventral surface blackish, 

 spotted, with a pair of yellow stripes running on each side from 

 the epigastric fold ; legs sometimes yellow and strongly banded 

 with black, sometimes more uniformly dark. Carapace nearly as 

 broad as long. Abdomen pentagonal, truncate in front, broadest 

 behind the middle, then abruptly narrowed, scarcely lobed. Plate of 

 vulva triangularly pointed, with thickened rim, each half of the 

 cavity subcircular when seen from the side. 



Length about 15 to 20 mrn. 



Loc. Burma : Rangoon, Tharrawaddy, Moulmein, &c. (Gates <$f 

 Pea). Andaman Islands. 



234. Argyope nndulata, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxv, p. 154, 



1887 j id. Spiders of Surma, p. 161, 1895. 



Closely allied to A. pulchella, but with the anterior pale, trape- 

 zoidal area on the upper side of the abdomen completely divided by 

 a single broad transverse olive-brown stripe. The inferior lamina 

 of the vulva much more rounded posteriorly ; the septum vertical 

 with straighter sides, and when viewed from the side forming a 

 right angle, and not a continuous circular curve, with the posterior 

 portion of the ventral sclerite. 



Total length 29 mm. 



Loc. Burma : Tharrawaddy (Oates) ; Shwegoo (Fea). 



235. Argyope anasuja, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genora, xxr, p. 162, 1887 : 



ornata, Simon, op. cit. xx, p. 347, 1884 (not of Blackwall). 



Resembling the preceding, but with the ventral plate of the 

 vulva scarcely produced in the middle posteriorly, the edge being 

 more -widely rounded, the thickened margin and the partition 

 forming rather a T-shaped than a Y-shaped bar. 



Total length about 11 mm. 



Loc. India: Eamnad (Fabre), Chiugleput (Jambunaihan), Oota- 

 camund (llampson), Bangalore (Stauntori), Nasik (Millet), Karachi 

 (Simon). 



The following species based upon an immature specimen is 

 indeterminable, though closely allied to A. anasuja : 



Argiope ornata, Blackwall, A. M. N. H. (3) xiv, p. 43, 1864 (Nephila). 

 Loc. East Indies. 



236. Argyope taprobanica, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxv, p. 163, 

 1887: versicolor, Karsch, Eerl. ent. Zeits. xxxvi, p. 280, 1892 

 (not of Doleschall). 



Closely allied to A. pulchella, but with the smooth edges of the 

 spaces of the vulva thicker, and the spaces themselves less circular 

 when seen from the side, and often furnished with a crescentic 

 sclerite forming a secondary partition. 



Total length 17 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon : Kandy, Peradeniya (Freeman). 



