858 int. R. I, pococK on scoepions, pedipalps, [Not. 14, 



Genus Cladomelea Sim. 

 Cladomelea lokgipes (Cambr.). 



Cyrtaracline lom/ipes, O. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 559, 

 pi. Ivi. fig. 1. 



Loc. San Salvador, Congo. 



Genus Gasteeacantha Sund. 



Gasteeacantha cuetispina Gue'rin. 



Gasteraeantlia ciirvis^nna, Guorin, Icon. Ri'g. Anim., Arachn. 

 pi. ii. fig. 8, (1837). 



Gasteraeantlia valckenaerii, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. 

 p. 425, pi. xii. fig. 7(1858). 



GaaferacantTia vaccula, Thorell, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. xvi. 

 p. 301 (1859) ; id. Eug. Eesa, Zool. Arachn. p. 12 (1868). 



Gasteraeantlia retracta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 157, 

 pi. iv. fig. 12, 



Loc. Benito Eiver {G. L. Bates) ; Sierra Leone. 



Gasteeacantha connata Butl. 



Gasteraeantlia connata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 168. 



Loc. Old Calabar (Gray). 



Closely allied to the Ceylonese G. geminata Fabr., but with 

 no near affinity to G. connata Simon (Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. 

 p. 847, 1894), which the author makes the type of section O of 

 his subdivisions of the genus Gasteraeantlia. 



Gasteeacantha foemosa Vins., subsp. nana Butl. 



Gasteraeantlia nana, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 161, pi. iv. 

 fig. 4. 



Loc. Congo (type, without further history). 



The type of this species is young. 



G. importuna and G. molesta, O. P. Cambr. (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 286, 

 pi. xxvi. fig. 1, and pi. xxvii. fig. 13), from W. Africa, are probably 

 the adult forms. 



Gasteeacantha batesi, sp. n. (Plate LVI. fig. 10.) 



? Gasteraeantlia connata, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 266 

 (nee G. connata, Butl.). 



Colour. Carapace black, with a large pale spot on each side of the 

 median eyes ; mandible shining black or red ; sternum and coxae 

 fuscous, indistinctly variegated ; legs yello\vish brown, indistinctly 

 annulated, tips of tarsi and protarsi black ; upperside of abdomen 

 yellow, with a large anterior median brown spot marked with a thin 

 yellow stripe like an inverted T, and on each side a black spot 

 divided by a narrow transverse yellow stripe ; the rest of the upper 

 surface variegated brown and black. 



Cephalic area elevated behind, the middle of the elevation 

 forming a pair of close-set tubercles. 



