FROM THE MONTEBELLO ISLANDS. ras) 
rounded column rising from an oval muscular scape. The 
anterior portion is club-shaped seen from behind, but a flattened | 
wedge from the side. 
The legs are moderately long and stout, the anterior end of 
the tibial joints being flattened and broadened out. There are 
bare streaks on the sides of these, but none above. The thick 
hair is downlying and smoother than in other parts, and there 
are no spines above either on these or the patelle, though several 
at the sides. 
The femoral joint of the palpi is curved inwards, broadest and 
flattened at the anterior end. The tibial joint is twice as long 
as the patellar, and numerous upstanding spines and bristles 
cover the whole length. 
The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows :— 
Long. Broad. 
it Se 
Cephalothorax... 5 | i in front. 
Abdomen........- 11 9 
Mandibles ...... 25 
Pat. Metat. 
Coxe. Tr. & fem. & tib. & tars. 
Wegs se psi. I, 13 6 3 oS = zd 
erence ent. 6 5 = Ge 
De 1s Ad 34 Sells 
A. 12 54 5 a le 
ingen lip tiers «asec 1 2 2 2 = A 
A small non-adult male has the scolloped black stripe at the 
anterior end of the abdomen and the black scollop bordering the 
inner pattern at the posterior end, on a yellow-grey ground. 
Group GASTERACANTHA, 
Genus GASTERACANTHA Sund. 
GASTERACANTHA MINAX Thor. 
10 females and 1 male, P. D. M. 6 females, T. H. 
This spider is found in considerable numbers from the east coast 
of New South Wales, through Victoria and South Australia to the 
Indian Ocean in Western Australia, its place being taken on the. 
north coast by Gasteracantha vittata Thor., which appears by far 
the most common species there. These specimens are from the: 
most northerly point yet recorded for the species. 
GASTERACANTHA MINAX Thor., var. LUGUBRIS L. Koch. 
5 females; all black, no bright markings. 
GASTERACANTHA MINAX Thor., var. AStRIGHRA L. K, 
6 females; black, with orange spot on sternum. 
