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Family Aegiopid^. 



Genus Nephila Leach. 



Nephila femoralis (Lucas). 



Epeira femoralis, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 38, pi. xii. 

 fig. 4 (1858). 



Nephila vittata, Keys. SB. Isis, Dresden, 1863, p. 142, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



Loc. Sierra Leone (Surg.-Capt. Clements) ; Liberia (Keyserlinc/ 

 Coll., type of jy. vittata) ; Gold Coast (T. E. BoivdicJi) ; Ashanti 

 (IT. H. Adams); Asaba, 150 miles up Niger (Dr. Crosse); Accra 

 and Wassan (G. A. Higlett) ; Cameroons (Copt. Burton, Miss 

 Kingsley) ; Old Calabar {Miss Kingsley, H. A. Spencer) ; Benito 

 Eiver (6*. L. Bates) ; Stanley Falls, Congo ; Angola. 



Nephila lucasi Simon. 



Epeira clirysogaster, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 35 (not 

 chrysogaster. Leach). 



Nepliila lucasi, Sunon, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1887, p. 270. 



Loc, Sierra Leone (Surg.- Capt. Clements); Ashanti (Mr. Macarthy); 

 Accra, (G. A. Higlett) ; CsLmeroons (Caj)t. Burton, Miss Kingsley); 

 Benito Eiver (G. L. Bates) ; Wathen on the Congo (Miss 

 Macormick). 



Nephila pilipes (Lucas). 



Epeira pilipes, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 40, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 7. 

 Loc. Fantee, Accra (G. A. Higlett) ; Benito River (G. L. Bates). 



Nephila bbagantina Brit. Capello. 



Nephila hragantina, Brit. Capello, Mem. Ac. Sci. Lisboa, (3) iv. 

 pt. 1 : Descripcao de algunas especies de . . . . Arachnideos, p. 11, 

 pi. ii. fig. 4. 



Loc. Braganza, interior of Angola (Brit. Cap.). 



The British Museum has no examples of this species from W. 

 Africa, but has received specimens of apparently the same form 

 from Kinyamholo, Lake Tanganyika (A. Nutt). N. hragantina 

 differs from N. heyserlingii Blackw. (=hymencea Gerst.) in having 

 the palpi black, the legs black with the exception of a yellow band 

 at the tip of the tibia and base of protarsus of 1st and 2nd legs, and 

 no dark band in the middle of the sternum. 



Nephila ceuentata (Fabr.). 



Araneus cruentatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 427 (1793). 



Nephila genualis, Gerst. Von der Decken's Eeisen, iii. 2, p. 502 

 (1873). 



Loc. Sierra Leone (D. F. Morgan, Surg.-Capt. Clements); Ashanti 

 (Mr. Macarthy) ; Onitsha on the Niger (Sir J. Marshall) ; Old 

 Calabar (H. A. Spencer) ; Congo (J. Pinnoch) ; Stanley Falls, Congo. 



