460 Mr. R. I. Pocock on 



below ; tarsi of first and second legs scopulate : claws armed 

 with one longer and one shorter tooth. 



Measurements in millimetres. — I'otal length 10 ; length of 

 carapace 5"8, width 5*5 ; length of palpus 8, of tirst leg 15, 

 of second 13, of third 11, of fourth 16 f; patella and tibia of 

 first leg 6, of fourth 5. 



Loc. Probably Shortland Island. A single example col- 

 lected by Mr. C. M. Woodford. 



All the previously described species of this genus, which 

 ranges westward from the Solomon Islands as far as Burma, 

 are based upon female examples, with which males cannot be 

 profitably compared. 



Family ArgiopidaB. 

 Genus Nephila, Leach. 



2. Nephila maculata (Fabr.). 



Nephila maculata (Fabricius), Ent. Syst. ii. p. 42-5 (1793) ; and all 

 recent authors. 



Specimens of the typical form from New Georgia 

 {H.M.S. 'Penguin'). 



3. Nephila maculata^ Walckenaerii (Dol.). 



Epeira Walckenaerii (Dol.), Xat. Tiidschr. Nederland. Indie, xiii. p. 412 

 (1857) ; id. Acta Soc. Sci. Indo-N.5.erland. 1859, pi. i. %. 4 (1859). 



Nephila fuscipes, L. Koch, Die Arachn. Austral, i. p. 156, pi. xiii. fig. 1 

 (1871) ; Thorell, Ann. Mus. Geneva, xvii. p. 146 (1881). 



A single example of this subspecies procured by Mr. Wood- 

 lord . 



4. Nephila imperialis (Dol.). 



Nephila imperialis (Dol.), Nat. Tiid.schr. Nederland. Indie, xiii. p. 413 

 (1857) ; id. Acta Soc. Sci. Indo-N^erland. p. 28, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1859). 



Loc. New Georgia (H.M.S. 'Penguin'). Specimen also 

 procured by Mr. 0. M Woodford. 



5. ^Nephila vitiana (Walck.). 

 Nephila vitiana (Walck.), Ins. Apt. iv. p. 471 (1847). 

 Recorded from the Solomon and Fiji Island.s. 



t In this and iu all cases in this paper the legs are measured from the 

 base of the femur, the coxa and trochanter being omitted. 



