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streak of brown reaching to the spinnerets. This is bordered along each side by a 

 yellow stripe, with yellow spots on the anterior half. On the largest specimen this 

 pattern is reduced to a pale median stripe only. Except in the non-adult, the abdomen 

 is barely twice as long as broad. 



The coxEe are black at the points and then bright yellow-brown, but the rest of 

 the legs are jet-black. In the epigyne and other respects they resemble the forma 

 frincipalis. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — 



Long. Broad 



Cephalothorax 13^ ■? 



Abdomen 29 14 



Mandibles 6i — 



Trochanter Patella Metatarsus 



Coxa. & femur. & tibia. & tarsus. 



Legs 1. 41 28 25 38 = 95i 



2. 4 24 21 29 = 78 



3. 4 15 10 17 = 46 



4. 4 27 20 30 = 81 

 Palpi 2 7 5 6 = 20 



These are near to N. walckenaerii Dol. [N. maculata, var. loalckenaerii), which, 

 however, is without the clear pattern most of these have, and the dark area on the 

 base of the abdomen is not present on any of these. 



Nephila 1 sp. 



Eight females, Setakwa Eiver. 



These are almost certainly the same as L. Koch's N. tenvipes, but larger, with no 

 humps and two deep depressions on the cephalic part of the cephalothorax. There 

 is no protuberance at the lower end of the sternum, but instead a straight end with 

 two small knobs, one at each corner. Dr. Thorell states that N. tenuipes L. K. is 

 probably the non-adult of N. fenicillum Dol. = N. maculata, var. j^enicillum Dol. 

 (loo. cit. supra, p. 147). , 



Genus Nephilengys L. Koch. 

 Nephilengys L. Koch, Die Araclin. Aust. p. 143 (1872). 



Nephilengys malabarensis, var. papuana. 



Epeira malabarensis Walckenaer, Ins. Apt. ii. 1841, p. 103. 

 Nephila nvulata Cambridge, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 618, pi. xlix. fig. 1. 

 Nephilenc/ys malabarensis, var. papuana Thorell, Eagni Austro-Malesi, iii. 1881, p. 156, 

 et auctores. 



One female. 



The coloration of the back and sides of the abdomen is exactly the same as depicted 



