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Show oO« MR. R. I. POCOCK ON SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [Nov. 14, Genus CLADOMELEA Sim. CLADOMELEA LONGIPES (Cambr.). Cyrtarachne longipes, 0. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 559, pl. lvi. fig. 1. Loc. San Salvador, Congo. Genus GASTERACANTHA Sund. GASTERACANTHA CURVISPINA Gue'rin. Gasteracantha curvispina, Guerin, Icon. Beg. Anim., Arachn. pl. ii. fig. 8, (1837). Gasteracantha walckenaerii, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 425, pl. xii. fig. 7(1858). Gasteracantha vaccula, Thorell, G5fv. Vet.-Akad. Fdrhandl. xvi. p. 301 (1859); id. Eug. Eesa, Zool. Arachn. p. 12 (1868). Gasteracantha retracta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc 1873, p. 157, pl. iv. fig. 12. Loc. Benito Biver (67. L. Bates) ; Sierra Leone. GASTERACANTHA CONNATA Butl. Gasteracantha connata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 168. Loc. Old Calabar (Gray). Closely allied to the Ceylonese 67. geminata Fabr., but with no near affinity to 67. connata Simon (Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 847, 1894), which the author makes the type of section O of his subdivisions of the genus Gasteracantha. GASTERACANTHA FORMOSA Vins., subsp. NANA Butl. Gasteracantha nana, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 161 pl iv fig. 4. Loc. Congo (type, without further history). The type of this species is young. 67. importuna and 67. molesta, 0. B. Cambr. (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 286, pl. xxvi. fig. 1, and pl. xxvii. fig. 13), from W . Africa, are probably the adult forms. GASTERACANTHA BATESI, sp. n. (Plate LVI. fig. 10.) ? Gasteracantha connata, Simon, Ann. Soc Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 266 (nee 67. connata, Butl.). Colour. Carapace black, with a large pale spot on each side of the median eyes ; mandible shining black or red; sternum and coxa? fuscous, indistinctly variegated ; legs yellowish brown, indistinctly annulated, tips of tarsi aud protarsi black; upperside of abdomen yellow, with a large anterior median brown spot marked with a thin yellow stripe like an inverted T, and on each side a black spot divided by a narrow transverse yellow stripe ; the rest of the upper surface variegated brown and black. Cephalic area elevated behind, the middle of the elevation forming a pair of close-set tubercles. |