234 AEGYOPLD^E. 



with pale markings ; sternum yellow ; abdomen yellow above with 

 two transverse black stripes, black below 

 with yellow spots. Abdomen narrowed later- 

 ally, about twice as wide as long ; the 

 anterior and median spines longest, sub- 

 equal, in contact at the base, diverging 

 slightly at apex ; posterior spines strongish. 



Fig A 79 '~ * Length of abdomen 5 mm., width 1 1 (not 



cantka germnata, ? . 



Loc. Ceylon : Peradeniya, Matale (Sarasin), Trincomali (Yer- 

 bury). Southern India : Tinnevelly (Barber) ; Ootacamund 

 (Hampsori) ; Ramuad (Fabre) ; Madras (JambutnaJian). 



262. Gasteracantha frontata, Blackwall, A. M. N. H. (3) xiv, p. 40, 

 1864 ; Cambr. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 283, t. xxvi, fig. 5 ; Thorell, 

 Spiders of Burma, p. 210, 1895. 



Colour and/orm much as in the preceding, but the anterior and 

 median spines of the abdomen separated. Abdomen pale above or 

 marked in front with a tolerably uneven black band, the yellow 

 area in front of the stripe reaching to the base of the anterior 

 spine. Sternum black with yellow spot ; median spines short, 

 narrower than mandibles, and nearly evenly narrowed from base 

 to point, about twice as long as the posterior, which a little exceed 

 the anterior. 



Length of abdomen 6 mm., width 13. 



Loc. Burma: Tharrawaddy, Tounghoo, Eangoon, Tenasserim 

 (Gates). Siam. 



263. Gasteracantha diadesmia, Thorell, Ann. Mm. Genova, xxv, 



p. 225, 1887. 



Closely allied to G. frontata, but with the anterior yellow band 

 not reaching the base of the anterior spines, aud with the posterior 

 half of the abdomen marked with a second transverse black stripe ; 

 median spine not thin and evenly attenuate, but thicker and with 

 its anterior border distinctly swollen and convex in its distal half. 



Total length of abdomen 7 mm., width 16. 



Loc. Burma : Tharrawaddy (Oates) ; Bhamo, Shwegoo (Pea). 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands, &c. ; also Penang and Siam. 



264. Gasterr.cantnaungiiifera, Simon, J.A.S. B. Iviii, p. 336, 1889. 



2 . Much smaller than the preceding. Abdomen granular and 

 tolerably uniformly flavous above, about one-third wider than 

 long ; anterior border rather strongly convex, anterior spines 

 small, acuminate; median spines much larger, with the basal 

 portion exceedingly stont and distally expanded, then abruptly 

 narrowed, the terminal portion normally slender and rising from 

 the middle of the expanded end of the basal portion ; posterior 



