858 ME. E. T. POCOCK ON SCOEPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [NoY. 14, 



Genus Cladomelea Sim. 



Cladomelea longipes (Cambr.). 



Cyrtarachne longipes, 0. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 559, 

 pi. Ivi. fig. 1. 



Loc. San Salvador, Congo. 



Genus Gasteracantha Sund. 



Gasteracantha cuetispitsta Guerin. 



Oasteracantha ciirvispina, Guerin, Icon. Reg. Anim., Araehn. 

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



Gasteracantha ivalclcenaerii, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. 

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



Gasteracantha vaccula, Thorell, (Efv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. xvi. 

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



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

 pi. iv. fig. 12. 



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



Gasteracantha connata Butl. 



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



Loc. Old Calabar (Gray). 



Closely allied to the Ceylonese G. geminata Eabr., 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 Gasteracantha. 



Gasteracantha tormosa Vins., subsp. nana Butl. 



Gasteracantha 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. 



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



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

 (nee 6r. 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 yellowish 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. 



