COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 445 



evenly all round from the flat central area to the margin. A short truncate piece in 

 front carries the ej'es and supports the mandibles, which are straight and perpendicular 

 with short stout fangs. 



The rear row of eyes is so procurved that the laterals are in a straight line with the 

 front median, the laterals of which are so slightly lower that they form altogether 

 a front row of six eyes in a nearly straight line. 



The rear median eyes are four of their diameters apart between their yellow pupils, 

 and their somewhat wide black rims bring them nearer. The front median, one-thii'd 

 wider than the rear, are one and a half diameters from them and the same distance 

 from one another. The laterals of each row are on a common protuberance, the eye 

 belonging to the rear row slightly the larger of the two, being on the outside they are 

 one-half of its diameter apart. A deep depression separates them from the prominence 

 on which the front median eyes lie, and there is a shallower depression between the 

 latter also. The clypeus is as broad as the distance between them. 



The lip, at least twice as wide as it is long, is truncate in front, where it is one-half 

 the width of its base and about one-third the height of the maxillse, which are 

 triangular, widest anteriorly. The sternum, as broad as long, is as wide as the lip and 

 slightly hollowed in front, widest between the second pair of coxee, pointed above the 

 contiguous pair of rear coxse. 



The tarsal and metatarsal joints of the legs (of which the front pairs are absent) are 

 much finer than the tibial ; the superior claws short, fine, and without pectinations. 

 The inferior claw longer than the others. 



The abdomen is ovate, slightly truncate in front ; spinnerets normal, on raised 

 chitinous bases. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — 



Long. Broad. 



io front. 

 .3 



Abdomen 3 



Mandibles 1 



Cephalothorax 3 < 



Trochanter Patella Metatarsus 



Coxa. & femur. & tibia. & tarsus. 



Legs 1. i _ _ _ 



2. I . 4J 4 4 = 131 



3. i 3 2 3 = 8i 



4. i 4 3 4 = IH 

 Palpi 4 i i li = 2| 



Doleschall described his species, Argiope reinwardtii from Amboina, from a female, 

 which is as usual much larger. The sexes being diff'erent in size and general appear- 

 ance, it is not easy, unless specimens are taken together, to associate them. M. Simon 



