COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 441 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — 



(By these it will be seen that the first pair of legs is eight and a half times 

 the length of the cephalothorax.) 



Long. Broad. 



n 1 1 i-i 1 A f 8 in front. 



Cephalothoi'ax 14 < 



Abdomen 27 9 



Mandibles 7i — 



Trochanter Patella Metatarsus 



Coxa. & femur. & tibia. & tarsus. 



Legs 1. 3 35 38 43 (37 & 6) = 119 



2. 3 26 23 35 (30 & 5) = 87 



3. 2-h 18 12 20 = 52i 



4. 3 32 23 (5 & 18) 35 = 93 

 Palpi li- 7 5 6 = 19i 



Dr. T. Thorell states (loc. cit. supra) that, after examination of a very large number 

 of specimens of this species, he is quite convinced that his forma imncipalis and 

 four varieties — annulipes, hasseltii DoL, walckenaerii DoL, and ijeiiicillum Dol. — 

 include the whole of the following species as synonyms : — Nephila fuscipes C. L. 

 Koch {not fuscipes L. Koch), JY. chr?/sogaster Walck., W. hasseltii DoL, N. kuhlii DoL, 

 N. walcJcenaerii DoL, N. penicillum DoL, N. procera L. Koch, N. sulphurosa L. K., 

 iV". tenuipes L. K. In the face of this, although the above-described specimens do not 

 conform exactly to any of the varieties of Thorell, but lie somewhere near var. has- 

 seltii, there is no occasion to consider them as a new variety — much less a species. 



Nephila maculata, nr. var. walckenaeeii. 



JSlephila maculata, var. walckenaerii DoleschalL Nat. Tijdschr.-Nederl. Indie^ xiii. 1857^ 

 p. 412. 



Four females (one non-adult). 



These specimens are rather shorter in the legs in comparison with the cephalo- 

 thorax than those above described, the first pair about seven times the length thereof 

 and others in proportion; they have small cephalic tubercles. The sternum in an 

 apparently old example is black all over, but in the others the sternal protuberances 

 are all bright orange. The posterior end of the sternum is broad, but rounded, with 

 two small knobs at the corners. 



The abdomen is pale olive-broAvn above, without any pattern or darkened base, 

 but four pairs of small muscle-spots ; the sides are darker, with pale wavy diagonal 

 stripes ; on the underside the gill-covers are dark brown. Below the epigyne is a 

 narrow, transverse, dark stripe followed by a broader pale one, then a broad longitudinal 



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