232 Prof. T. Thorell o,i some 



lat. front, circa ^ ; Ig. abd. paullo plus 2^, lat. cj. 1| millim. 

 Fed. I. pfene 4|, II. paullo plus 3|, III. 2^, IV. 4 millim. lonj-i ; 

 pat. + tib. IV. paene Ih millim. 



Of this species Mr. Oates's collection contains a few females 

 and a single male. 



5. Epeira {Cyclosa) insulana, Costa. 



1834. Epeira insulana, Costa, Cenni Zool. &c. p. 65. 



1841. Epeira anseripes, Walck., H. N. d. Ins. A.pt. ii. p. 146. 



1842. Epeira trituberculata, Luc, Explor. de TAlfj^iie, Arachn. p. 248, 

 pi. XV. f]g. 4. 



1877. Cyrtophora mehnura, Sim., " £tudes Araclin. : IX. Arachn. 

 recueillis aux iles Philippines," in Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 5^ 

 ser. vii. p. 72, pi. iii. fig. 9. 



1878. Epeira anseripes, Thor., Studi &c., II. Ragni di Amboina, loc. 

 cit. xiii. p. 81. 



The collection contains many examples of this very variable 

 species, among them some few males. The " scapus " of the 

 vulva is wanting (broken) in almost all ihe adult females. 



For synonymy of Epeira insulana, Co.sta, see also 

 Thorell, " Spindlar fran Nikobarerna och andra dchir af Sodra 

 Asien &c.," in K. Svcnska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Hand- 

 lingar, xxiv. no. 2 (1891), p. 150*. 



6. Epeira Thiisii^ Walck. 



1841. Epeira Theisii \_Theis'], Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 53; 

 Atlas, pi. xviii. tig. 4. 



Only a very young female specimen. 



7. Epeira punctigera^ Dol. 



1857. Epeira punctigera, Dol. Bijdr., t. de Keunis d. Arachn. v. d. Ind. 

 Archipol, in Tijdschr. v. Noderlandsch Indie, xiii. (ser. 3, iii.), p. 420. 



Two males, one adult, the other not fully devcloj)od. 



The full-grown specimen is rather large (10 millim. long), 

 with the whole cephalothorax of a rusty-brown colour, and 

 the back of the abdomen greyish yellow, without any other 

 pattern than a small whitish A near the base and the ordi- 

 nary four im])ressed brownish points. The belly is darker 

 along the middle, with a broad transverse yellow band imme- 

 diately behind the rima genitalis and two large yellow sjiots 

 in front of the mamillai. 



* ^^Epeira tithercuhtta, Luc," is hero a kipsiu< calanti for E. (rinibtrcu- 

 lata, Luc. 



