206 Mr. E. I. Pocock on 



Argiope trifasciata (Forskal). 

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



Genus Akaneus (Linn.). 

 (^Ejjeira of authors.) 



Aranei/s rujipalpts (Lucas). 



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

 { = seunannulatus, Karsch and others.) 



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

 {G. A. K. Marshall), S ■ 



Abundant throughout tropical East and West Africa. 



Araneus viimosicola (Simon). 

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



Loc, Dirrban [H. A. Spencer). 



Originally recorded from Khartoum and subsequently from 

 Somaliland [Donaldson Smith), whence the British Museum 

 has examples identified by M. Simon. 



Araneus cp-toscapus, 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, tibise, and protarsi lightly infuscate 

 apically, tibial 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 J ocular quadrangle wider in front, posterior 



