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Argyroepeira granulata (Walck.). 

 Tetragnatha granulata, Walck. Ins. Apt. II., p. 222, 1841 (= Epeira orichalcea, Del). 

 Luc. N. Britain. 

 Occurring in Celebes, Amboina, Papua, etc. 



GENUS. Tetragnatha, Latr. 

 Tetragnatha rttbriventris, Doleschall. 



Tijdschr. Nederland-Indie xin., p. 410, 1857 (see Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xvn., 

 p. 131). 



Loc. New Guinea A single specimen taken on bank of river at Igebai, 

 Milne Bay. The species has been previously recorded from Halmahera, Amboina, Aru, 

 Salawatty, New Guinea and Cape York. 



Genus. Cyrtarachne, Keys. 

 Cyrtarachne tricolor, (Dol.). 



Plectana tricolor, Doleschall, Acta Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerland, p. 44, PI. VIII, Fig. 3 

 (1859). 



Cyrtarachne tricolor, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova XVII., p. 57, 1881. 



Loc. New Britain. This species has been previously recorded from Celebes, 

 Amboina, Cape York and New Guinea. 



Genus. Ordgarius, Keyserling. 



Ordgarius bicolor, sp. n. 

 PI. X. Figs. 4—4 a. 



Colour; carapace blackish brown; abdomen deep blackish chocolate brown below, 

 behind, at the sides, and above on the prominence, but between the prominences orna- 

 mented with a broad yellowish-brown band which behind the prominences expands to 

 the right and left and extends over the whole of the area of upper side of the abdomen 

 upon which there are no tubercles; legs pale yellow, annulate, there being three deep 

 black bands on the femora and fainter ones upon the patellae, tibiae and protarsi ; coxae, 

 sternum, maxillae and labium a uniform deep blackish brown. 



Carapace without spines, but strongly tuberculated, eight tubercles on the cephalic 

 area, a pair behind, two in a line in front of the pair, the foremost on the summit 

 of the head, and two smaller ones on each side of this lying towards the lateral 

 ocular tubercle. 



Abdomen heart-shaped, about one-third wider than long, with a pair of high, broad, 

 rounded prominences ; the prominences, the sides of the abdomen, and posterior portion 

 of upper surface studded with rounded tubercles. 



Legs unspined. 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 13, width of abdomen 12 - 5, length of 

 abdomen 9"5. 



w. 13 



