COLLECTED IN DUTCH IsEW GUINEA. 453 



Male. 



Leo 



Group C y r 1 p h o r e 86. 

 Genus Cyrtophoea Simon. 



CtrTOPHORA MOLUCCE^'SIS. 

 Epewa moluccensis Doleschall, Nat. Tijd, v. Nederl. Ind. vol. xiii. 1857, p. 418 ; id. Act. Soc. 



Sci. Ind. Need. vol. v. 1858-9, pi. i. fig. 7 ; Thorell, Ragni di Amboina, Studi Rag. 



Mai. e Pap. vol. ii. 1878, pp. 41, 296; Ragni di Austro-Malesi, Studi Rag. Mai. e 



Pap. vol. iii. 1881, p. 80. 

 Araneus moluccensis Pocock in Sond. aus dem Abh. der Senck. naturf. Ges., Bd. xxiii. Heft 4, 



1897, p. 599. 

 Cyrtophora moluccensis Simon, Hist. Nat. des Araignees, vol. i. 1895, p. 775 (note) ; 



Kulczynski in Bot.-Zool. Ergebn. Samoa- u. Solomons-inseln, 1910, p. 6, pi. xvii. fig. 5. 



Two females. 



This widely spread species has so many variations in size and coloration that it is 

 difficult to say for certain, in the absence of the type-specimens, that all attributed 

 thereto belong to the same species as that described by Doleschall, but from his 

 description I have little doubt as to these specimens being the same. 



Thorell (loc. cit.) gives the following as synonyms : — 



Epeira maritima Keys. 

 „ cupidinea Thor. 

 ,, hieroglyphica L. Koch. 

 ,, margaritacea Dol. 



The drawings accompanying the original descriptions of these vary considerably. 

 The present specimens have light and dark rings on the tibia, but the epigyne agrees 

 exactly with Prof. Kulczynski's drawing {loc. cit.). 



The pattern given by Mr. W. J. Kainbow (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1898, pt. 3, 

 pi. vii. fig. 4) of his C. simoni from British New Guinea is the same as this, but in 

 some points his description seems to differ. 



