ARGYOPE. 221 



side with three large and often two smaller tubercles and a median 

 caudal process. Vulva with septum narrow, when viewed from 

 below covering only the middle third of the cavity. 

 Total length 23 to 2S mm. 



Fig. 70. — Argyope arcuaia, J, nat. size. 



Loc. Western and Southern India : Poona ( Wroughton) ; E. 

 Khandesh (Ma dun) ; Bangalore (Staunton). Burma: Minhla. 



232. Argyope lobata, Pallae, Spic. Zool. i, pt. 9, p. 46, t. iii, fig. 14, 



1772 (Aranea). 



2 • Allied to the preceding, but paler in colour ; legs very 

 distinctly striped. Coxae and trochanters of 3rd and 4th leys not 

 spinulose below ; band of spiuules on femur of 4th more scanty 

 and not spreading on to the basal third of the segment. Septum 

 of vulva broader and shorter. 



Total length about 2o mm. 



Loc. India : Bellary and Wagra Ivaroor (according to Simon). 



233. Argyope pulchella, Thordl, Ann.Mus. Genova, xvii. p. 74, 188] \ 



Simon, op. cit. w. p. .'!!•'>. 1884; Thorell, op. cit.xxv,^. L58, L887 ; 



ill. .Sju'i/rrs i,f I !,/ rum. y. L62, L896. 



2. Colour: cara])ace and legs deep reddish brown, the former 

 thickly covered with silky white hair; palpi yellow; sternum 

 yellow, black at sides ; abdomen yellow or whitish above, orna- 

 mented with a large triangular olive-black patch behind, a trans- 

 verse bar of the same colour in front, and two close-set narrow 

 lines forming together a stripe in the anterior half, the dark 



