B 
GASTERACANTHA BREVISP[NA. DoL 
Syn. : 1837- Gasi&racantba cusptdata, C. L. Koch, Die Arach. IV., p. Z2 (ad partem : 
exernpla " tuberculo-cephalothoracis smgulo, 
conico 
1857. PUctana hr^ispina^ Doi, Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Arachniden van de 
Indischen Archipel. p. 423. 
1859, „ fiavida^ id-t Tweedii Bijdrage ibid., p. 43, tab. XIII,^ fig, 3. 
1859. rnseo-iimbata^ id , ibid., p. 43, tab, XIIL, fig. 1 
1859. „ mediatusca^ id,, ibid., p. 44, tab. XIIL, fig. 9. 
J 859. Gasifracaniha mam/ngai If ThoT.^ Nya exot. Epeir , in Ofvers. af Vet - 
Akad, ForhandL XV'L, p. 301. 
? 1859. „ guttata^ id., ibid- 
1868, „ mammenta^ id., Freg. Eugenies Resa, Arach», L, p. 18. 
? 1868, guttata^ id,, ibid., p. 19. 
1871. SHminatttj L. Koch, Die Arach. Austral,, p. ii.Tab. I., 
fig. 7— 7a. 
1878. „ Srevtspitta, Thor. Studi cet., 11. Ragni Malesi e Papuani 
raccolti dal Prof, O. Beccari, pp. 17 to 294, 
? 1879. obsarvairixj Cainb,, On some new and little known spec, of 
Aran., with remarks on the gen. Gasteracantha, 
in Proceed, of the Zool. Soc Lond., 1879, 
p. 291, PI, XXVII., fig. 21. 
1B81. hrevispina^ Thor., Studi cet.. III., Ragni deirAustro- 
Malesia, cet., p. 27. 
1882. flavida^ Van Hass., Midden Sumatra, cet., Aran,, p. 15. 
? 1882. j, mammosa^ ibid. 
1889-90. ,1 brei,>ispina, Thor., Studi cet. IV., Vol. I., p. 63. 
Description of Plate 8. — a, figure of spider magnified ; natural size ; Cy eyes ; d^ 
palpus of ^ . 
This spider makes a similar web to that of GahUracaniha dortae Sim but only 
twelve inches in diameter, and also sits in the centre of web, head downwards. It was 
found at Mr. Davidson's plantation in a coffee -tree. Common in the Malayan Archi- 
pelago. 
