Arachnida from Natal. 205 



From D. bubalus, Simon (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1890, 

 p. 126), from Kilimanjaro, which is, perhaps, the female of 

 I). cornigera, D. cylindricus at least differs in the form of the 

 abdomen, this region in bubalus being described as strongly 

 bituberculate in front of the middle. 



Family Argiopidae. 



Genus Nephila, Leach. 



Nephila madagascariensis (Vinson). 



Epeira madagascariensis, Vinson, Aran£ides des lies Reunion &c. p. 191, 

 pi. Tii. 



Loc. Pietermaritzburg (F. J. Quekett). 



Ranges throughout East Africa from Natal to Masailand. 



Nephila annulata, Thorell. 



Nephila annulata, Thorell, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. xvi. p. 299 ; 



Eugenies Resa, Araneae, p. 34. 

 Nephila transvaalica, Poc, W. L. Distant's Naturalist in the Transvaal, 



p. 180, pi. v. fig. 4. 



Loc. Estcourt, 4000 feet (O. A. K. Marshall). 



Nephila cruentata (Fabr.). 

 Loc. Durban {H. A. Spencei-). 



Nephila pilipes (Lucas). 

 Epeira pilipes, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 416, pi. xiii. fig. 7. 

 Loc. Estcourt, 4000 feet (G. A. K. Marshall). 



Genus ARGIOPE, Aud. 

 Argiope nigrovittata ) Thorell. 



Argiope nigrovittata, Thorell, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. xvi. p. 300; 



Eugenies Resa, Araneae, p. 31 (1868). 

 ( = caudata, Blck. ; suavissima, Gerst.) 



Loc. Durban (H. A. Spencer) ; Estcourt, 4000 feet 

 (G. A. K. Marshall). 



Banging throughout tropical and subtropical Africa from 

 Somaliland and the Congo to Cape Colony. 



Argiope clathrata, C. Koch. 



:, C. Koch, Die Arachniden, v. p. 4 

 ck. ; lata, Thorell.) 



Loc. Estcourt, 4000 feet (G. A. K. Marshall). 



Argiope clathrata, C. Koch, Die Arachniden, v. p. 40, fig. 362 (1839). 

 ( = australis, Walck. ; lata, Thorell.) 



