the Transvaal and Nyasdland. 311 



Nephila pih'pes, Lucas. 



Nephila pilipes, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Eut. ii. p. 416, pi. xiii. fig. 7 

 (1859). 



Loc. Zomba [Percy Rendall). 



CyrtopJiora citricola (Forsk.). 

 Loc. Pretoria {W. L. Distant). 



Argiope nigrovittata^ Tiior. 



Argiope niyrovittata, Thor. (Efv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. xvi. p. .'500. 



Loc. Barberton and Fort Jolinston, Njasaland [Percy 

 Rendall) . 



Ccerostris sexcuspidata (Fabr.) . 

 Zoc. Durban ( W. L. Distant). 



Ccerostris Vinsom'i, Thor. 

 Cfcrostris Vinsonii, Thor., Eugenies Resa, Arachnideu, pp. 8-9. 



I^oc. Barberton [P. Rendall). 



Described from Caffraria. 



According to my identification this species may be distin- 

 guished at once from the preceding by the fact that the two 

 spiniform processes on the vulva are widely separated at the 

 base, whereas in sexcuspidata they arise close together from a 

 common eminence. One of the specimens of this species has 

 the white head-patches noticed hy Mr. O. P. Cambridge in 

 his species C. albiceps. 



Gasteracantha milvoideSj Butl. 

 Gasteracantha milvoides, Butl. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 159, pi. iv. fig. 2. 



This form may be regarded provisionally, at all events, as 

 a subspecies of the Madagascar formosa^ Vins., from which it 

 differs in the greater elongation of the posterior lateral spine. 



Dr. Percy Rendall obtained two examples at Zomba 

 (Nyasaland). The type was ticketed vaguely " S. Africa." 



Gasteracantha ensifera, Thor. 



Gasteracantha ensifera, Thor. CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. xvi, p. 302 

 (1860) ; Eugenies Resa, Arachn. p. 16 (1868). 



Recorded from Caffraria. Mr. Distant brought two speci- 

 mens from Durban. 



