GEA DECORATA. Thor. 
Syn, : iS8g-go. Geadecoraia^ Thor., Studi sui Ragiii Malesi,etc,, Part IV., Vol. i,p. 104* 
Description of Plate 23 $ >■ — i?, figure of spider magnified; b^ natural size; spider 
in profile ; f/, maxillae and labium ; eyes and fakes ; cptgyne ; epigytie greatly 
magnified. 23*7. — snare. 
Plate 24 S . — figure of spider magnified ; natural size ; c, spider in profile ; 
rf, eyes and falces \ ma.xillae and labium ; left palpus from inside ; ^, right palpus 
and eyes from above. 
Total length, 6 ; cephalothorax, almost 3^ breadth, 2^, in front a little more 
than I ; abdomen, 3f , breadth^ 2^ millim. Legs, i, — to|, ii, — lo^, iii. — 6|, iv. — almost 
io| millim. ; pateUaH- tibia, tv. — almost 3^: millim. (Thorell.) 
T obtained three snares of this species in Singapore; two of them among grass and 
ferns, and all perpendicular. Spider sitting in centre, head downwards. 
No. t, 3 inches in diameter ; rays, 48, meeting in a reticulation ; inner spiral, 15^ 
not adhesive, and getting wider as it goes outward until it joins the outer spiral, so 
there is no free zone ; outer spiral, adhesive, 28 at top and 40 at bottom ; small pro- 
tecting reticulation behind the web at the Spider's back. 
No. 2, 5 inches in diameter ; 56 rays meeting in a ring ; inner spiral running 
through free zone in a gradually enlarging spiral j outer spiral, top 24, bottom 50. 
In this web there was a ^ Spider, but no ? ; and it is from this Spider that the ^ 
drawing is made. Though the Spider was not in the web but on one of the rays I do 
not think I am wrong in describing it as the ^ of this species, both from the style of 
the web and the position in which I found it. 
No. 3, 7 inches in diameter ; rays, 56 ; inner spiral, ] 6, spreading as it goes 
outward ; free zone, i inch diameter ; across free zone, 2k iuches ; outer spiral, 39. 
This species is also found in Sumatra. 
