206 Mr. E. I. Pocock on 



Argiope trifasciata (Forskal). 

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



Genus AliANEUS (Linn.). 

 ( = Epei?-a of authors.) 



Araneus rufipalpis (Lucas). 



Araneus rufipalpis (Lucas), Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 422. 

 ( = semiannulatus, Karsch and others.) 



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

 (G. A. K. Marshall), <$ . 



Abundant throughout tropical East and West Africa. 



Araneus mimosicola (Simon). 

 Araneus mimosicola (Simon), Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, p. 17. 



Loc. Durban (ff. A. Spencer). 



Originally recorded from Khartoum and subsequently from 

 Somaliland (Do?ialdson Smith), whence the British Museum 

 has examples identified by M. SSimon. 



Araneus cyrtoscapus, sp. n. (Pi. VIII. figs. 2-25.) 



Colour yellow, like a pale example of A . diadema ; the 

 bristles and spines on the thorax, abdomen, and legs arising 

 from fuscous spots ; the spines themselves, being dark at the 

 tips, impart a somewhat speckled appearance to the integu- 

 ment; the patellae, tibia?, and protarsi lightly infuscate 

 apically, tibiae and protarsi also marked with the median 

 fuscous patch ; tarsi apically black ; sternum infuscate, 

 paler at the sides ; upperside of abdomen with two pale 

 yellow spots between the shoulder-points and a pale faint 

 transverse line running inwards and slightly backwards from 

 each shoulder-point to the middle line of the abdomen; the 

 area behind this marked with similar faint lines, emphasized 

 anteriorly by a greyish tint; a faint greyish irregular band 

 running along the middle line from the anterior end of the 

 abdomen between the two yellow spots, past the middle line; 

 lower side of abdomen behind the epigastric fold infuscate, 

 the median infuscate area bounded on each side by a crescentic 

 yellow band, passing on each side from the stigma to meet 

 a short yellow bar running forwards from the sides of the 

 anterior spinner. 



Cephalic region of carapace distinctly convex from before 

 backwards ; oculur quadrangle wider in front, posterior 



