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Genus Nephilengys, L. Koch. 



Obs. — Nephilengys schmeltzii, L. Koch, is the type of this 

 genus. 



Nephilengys rainbowi, Hoyy. 



Nephilenyys rainbowi, Hogg, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xi., 1899, 

 p. 141, pi. xiii., fi^s. 1, \a-\d. 

 Hah. — Upper Endeavour River, Queensland. 



Subfamily ARGIOPIN.E. 



Genus Argiope, And. in Sav. 



(=Pronous, v. Hasselt, non Keys.). 

 Obs. — Aryiope lobata, Pallas, is the type species of this genus. 



Argiope ^mula, Walck. 



Epeira cemida, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Ins., ii., 1857, p. 118. 

 Epeira (Aryiopes) striata, Dol., Bijdr., 1857, p. 415 ; Tweede 

 Bijdr., p. 30, tab. ix, figs. 2, 2a. 



Aryiope maynifica, L. Koch, Die Arach. des Austr., i., 1871, 



p. 27, tab. xi., figs. 6, 6«, 6b. 

 Aryiope cemula, Thor., Studi Ragni Mai. e Papuani, 1877, p. 24; 



op. cit., vii., 1878, p. 29 ; op. cit., iii., 1881, p. 63; op. cit., 



iv., 1, 1890, p. 94. 

 Aryiope cemnla, Workman, Malaysian Spiders, 1896, p. 27, pi. 27. 

 Aryiope cemula, Rainbow, Rec. Austr. Mus , vii., 4, 1909, p. 213. 

 Flab. — Malaysia, Papua, Queensland, and New South Wales. 



Argiope .etherka, Walck. 



Epeira cetherea, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Ins., Apt., ii., 1837, 



p. 112. 

 Aryiope cetherea, Keys., Verh. der K. K. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



1865, p. 803, tab. xix., figs. 1, 2. 

 Aryiope cetherea, L. Koch, Die Arach. des Austr., i., 1871, p. 36? 



tab. iii., tigs. 4, 4a ; op. cit., p. 43. 

 Aryiope cetherea, Rainbow, Rec. Austr. Mus., vii., 4, p. 213. 



