40 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
VII. Descriptions of One New Genus and Four 
New Species of Spiders. 
By Rk. I. Pocock. 
Argiopide. 
(1) Araneus hoplophallus. 
$. Colour.—Carapace and legs yellowish red, the latter marked with deep 
brown transverse bands and armed with spines, mostly white with black 
tips, except those on the front of the tibia of the 2nd leg, which are nearly 
black throughout ; upper side of abdomen mottled with olive black spots and 
marks on a greyish ground; the anterior area between and in front of the 
shoulder points marked medially with an olive black stripe which behind is 
continuous with a transverse, slightly procurved, band of the same colour 
extending between the shoulder points ; no pair of circular white marks on 
this area; the rest of the dorsal surface marked with narrow transverse olive 
black lines, with their extremities curved forward and bordered behind by a 
paler line. Structurally the type of this species is very closely allied to the 
males of A. streptoceros, Poc., from Rhodesia and Nyassaland (Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (7), IL., p. 436, 1898), and to A. cyrtoscapus, Poc., from Natal (Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), IL., p. 206, 1898), but differs from them in the structure 
of its palpal organs, as will be shown in our illustration accompanying the 
final report upon the Sokotra collection. 
Total length, 11 mm. ; length of carapace, 6. 
Halitat. Adho Dimellus (3500-4500 ft.). A single male example. 
(2) Araneus cardioceros. 
2. Colour.—Carapace yellow, with a black clypeal band, and an obliquely 
longitudinal arched stripe on each side of the head; mandibles yellow, 
clouded with black in front ; palpi and legs yellow, clothed with white hairs, 
armed with black spines, and banded with black; sternum bordered with 
black ; abdomen greyish white above, marked with distinct olive green 
“folium” ; ventral surface with two whitish bands, separated by a narrower 
dark interspace, extending from the epigastric fold to the spinners, which are 
blackish. 
Carapace about as long as tibia of 1st leg; moderately high, its upper 
surface from the ocular area back to the apex of the fovea nearly flat longi- 
tudinally ; median quadrangle of the eyes considerably wider in front than 
behind, the anterior median perhaps a little larger than posterior median, the 
latter about a diameter and a half apart; anterior median about two dia- 
meters apart, about a diameter above the clypeus, more than twice as far 
from the laterals as from each other; eyes of the anterior line distinctly 
though not very strongly procurved ; the two laterals not quite in contact. 
Legs spined; abdomen heart-shaped, a little longer than wide, convexly 
rounded in front, with prominent but obtuse shoulder points from which the 
two sides of the anterior margin are inclined forward and inwards at a right 
angle ;-posterior extremity not produced. Vulva consisting of a vertically 
directed heart-shaped tubercle, without any distinct scape. 
Total length, 7 mm.; carapace, less than 3; 
length, 4:5. 
Habitat. Sokotra (Adho Dimellus and Jena-agahan) and Abd-el-Kuri. 
width of abdomen, 4; 
