212 Mr. R. I. Pocock on 



without shoulder- points, flattened above, its height about 

 half its length. 



Vulva as in PI. VIII. fig. 6 ; the scape much narrower 

 than the subjacent portion, deeply excavated above, ending 

 posteriorly in a rounded apex which overlaps the latter. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 6; length of 

 abdomen 4*5, width 3*5. 



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



This peculiar species, apparently mimicking a Coccinella, 

 is recognizable at once from all the species described in this 

 paper and from all known to me by its peculiar colouring. 

 The exact generic position of the species appears to me to 

 be doubtful. In spite of the separation of the lateral eyes, 

 it appears to me to fall rather into Araneus than into 

 Cyrtophora. The coloration suggests that of Paraplectana 

 Walleri (Blck.). 



Genus Cyrtophora, Simon. 

 Cyrtophora citricola (Forsk.). 

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



Genus Argyroepeira, Emerton. 

 Argyroepeira Antinorii (Pavesi). 



? Epeira undulata, Vinson, Aran6ides des lies Reunion &c. p. 207, 



pi. v. fig. 3 (1863). 

 ? Metaliabli, Karsch, Zeits. gesammt. Naturwiss. 1878, p. 771. 

 Meta Antinorii, Pavesi, Ann. Mus. Genova, xx. p. 22 (1883). 

 Argyroepeira blanda, O. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 626, pi. liii. 



fig. 6. 

 Argyroepeira undulata, Vinson, Simon in Donaldson Smith's ' Through 



Unknown African Countries,' p. 388. 



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

 {G. A. K. Marshall). 



These Natal specimens appear to me to be specifically iden- 

 tical with examples from Shoa named M. Antinorii by Pavesi 

 and presented to the British Museum by the Marquis G. Doria, 

 and also with Somaliland specimens identified as undulata, 

 Vinson, by Simon. If they are in reality identical with 

 undulata, the latter name, having priority, must stand. 

 Judging, however, from Vinson's tigures, the abdomen of 

 undulata is longer and more pointed behind than in the 

 African species. 



