Arachnida, etc. 159 



Family SCYTODID.E. 

 6. Scytodes (Dictis) venusta, Thor. 



Bictis venusta, Thorell : Arm. Mus. Geneva (2), 1889-90, viii, p. 301. 



Several specimens apparently identical with B. venusta, Thorell, 

 which has hitherto heen recorded only from Sumatra. 



Family PHOLCID^. 



7. Smeringopus elongatus (Vinson). 



Phohus elongalus, Vinson : Aran, des iles . . . Eeunion, Maurice, et 



Madagascar, 1863, p. 135, pi. iii, fig. 5. 

 Pholcus distinctus, 0. P. Cambr. : Joum. Liun. Soc, 1869, x, p. 380, pi. xi, 



figs. 28-30. 



" Flying Fish Cove. In houses." 



Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



Family AEGIOPID^. 

 8. Argiope reinwardti (Dol.). (PI. XVI, Fig. 2.) 



Epeira trifasciata, Doleschall : Nat. Tijdschrift Nederland. Indie, 1857, xiii 

 (ser. Ill, vol. iii), p. 416. Verb. Nat. Vereen. Nederland. Indie, 

 1858-9, V, pi. i, fig. 3 [noDi. preocc). 



Epeira reinwardti, id.: loc. cit., p. 31, pi. xv, fig. 5. 



Argiope doleschalUi, Thorell : Remarks on Syn., 1873, p. 520 ; Ann. Mus. 

 Genova, 1878, xiii, p. 38. 



" Common eveiy where ; geometrical web in forest. "Web 

 furnished with narrow vertical white band of thick silk, crossing 

 centre. Spider rests in form of an X-" 



Ranges from Java to Amboina. 



In the typical Javan form of this species, as figured by 

 Doleschall, the two anterior abdominal stripes are separated by 

 a wider dark space than is observable in any of the Christmas Island 

 specimens. Unfortunately we have scarcely any material from Java 

 wherewith to test the constancy of this character in the typical 

 form. Eut since in the Christmas Island form the two yellow stripes 

 are sometimes in contact in the middle line, sometimes separated 

 by a narrow space, it is justifiable to assume that Javan specimens 

 will be found to vary in a similar way. 



A figure of the species is published on PI. XVI, as being 

 the most beautiful and one of the most plentiful spiders on the 

 island. 



