1899.] AND SPIDERS FEOM TEOPICAL WEST AFEICA. 849 



The following W. African species of this genus is unknown to 

 me: — 



Nephila consteicta Karsch. 



NepMla constricta, Karsch, Zeits. gesaiumt. Natiirwiss. lii. p. 834, 

 fig. 4 (1879). 



Loc. Loango coast. 



Genus Abigiope Aud. at Sav. 



Aegiope elatipalpis (Lucas), 



Epeira flavipalpis, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 49 

 (1858). 



Argiope fiavipalpis, Brit. Capello, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, i. p. 83, 

 pi. ii. fig. 2 (1866). 



Argiope pechueli, Karsch, Zeits. gesammt. Naturwiss. lii. p. 340 

 (1879). 



Loc. Sierra Leone {Sury.-Capt. Clements) ; Old Calabar {Miss 

 Kingsley); Cameroons {C apt. Burton and /Sir Harry Johnston); 

 Benito Eiver ((?. L. Bates). 



The legs of this species vary in tint: sometimes they are noticeably 

 striped black aud yellow, as in the form to which Karsch gave the 

 name pecJiueli, and sometimes of a very much darker, more uniform 

 hue as in the tj'pical A.jlavipjalpis. The two forms occur at the same 

 locaUty, and gradations in the coloration of the legs are traceable. 

 I therefore regard A. pechueli as a synonym of A. fiavipalpis. 



Aegiope nigeovittata Thorell. 



Argiope nigrovittata, Thorell, (Efv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. p. 300 

 (1860). 



Argiope caudata, Blackwall, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xvi. 

 p. 346 (1865). 



Argiope zairiensis, Brit. Capello, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, i. p. 82, pi. ii. 



Argiope suavissima, Gerstacker, Von der Decken's Eeisen, iii. 2, 

 p. 495, pi. xviii. fig. 10 (1873). 



Loc. Congo ; Benguela (J. J. Monteiro). 



Genus Abaneus Linn. 

 Aeaneus eufipalpis (Lucas). 



Epeira rufipalpis, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 422(1858). 



Epeira semiannulata, Karsch, Zeits. gesammt. Naturwiss. lii. 

 p. 334 (1879) ( 2 ) ; Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Erance, ix. p. 14, pl.ii. 

 tigs. 7-8 (1884) ( c? , $ ). 



? Epeira penicillipes, Karsch, loc. cit. p. 836 ( d ). 



Loc. Sierra, Jjeone (Sitrg.-Caj^t. Clements); AcGrei(G. A. Higlett); 

 Cameroons {Capt. Burton); Benito Eiver {G. L. Bates). This 

 species also occurs on the eastern side of the continent of Africa. 



It appears to me that the descriptions given of E. rufipalpis and 



