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ME. H. E. HOGG ON SPIDEES 



Argiopk trifasciata. 



Epeira trifasciata Dolescliall, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. xiii. 1857^ p. 416 ; id. Tweede Bijd. 

 Araclii). Ind. Arcliip. pi. i. fig. 3. 



Two much mutilated female specimens are apparently referable to this well-known 

 species. 



Genus Gea C. Koch. 

 Gea C. Koch, Ar. x. 1843, p. 101. 



Gea rotunda, sp. n. (Text-fig. 24.) 



One male. {Type of the species.) 



The ceplialothorax is bright yellow-brown with rather paler streaks in the 

 radiations. The clypeus and mandibles are dingy yellow-grey, fangs yellow-brown. 

 Lip, maxillae, and sternum dingy yellow with pale yellow-grey hair. The coxae of the 



Text-figure 24. 



Oea rotunda, J , x 2. a. Front of cephalotliora,x, showing 05-es, mandibles, and male palps 

 from upper and underside. 



front two pairs of legs are yellow, of the two rear pairs dark yellow-grey. The femora 

 and patellae, are dark brown. The basal half of the tibia yellow, the anterior half 

 dark brown. The metatarsi and tarsi yellow, hair pale yellow on the former, browner 

 on the tarsi. The palpi yellow-brown with pale yellow hair. The abdomen is pale 

 greenish or silvery-grey above, dark grey mottled with yellow underneath. 



The cephalothorax is almost circular with a shallow oval fovea in the centre, whence 

 shallow depressions radiate to the circumference. It is moderately convex, curving 



