1898.] BY MR. 0. S. BETTOK IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 509 



Loc. Mgana, Mazivva Mitatu, Marago-ya-Fundi. 



This species has a wide range throughout East Africa and is also 

 abundant in Socotra. Fortunately the admirable figure of it 

 published by Gerstacker makes the identification of the species a 

 matter about which there can be little doubt. 



Nbphila pilipes (Lucas). 



Epeira pilipes, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Eat. ii. p. il6, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 7 (1858). 



Loc. Taru. 



Abundant throughout tropical Africa and extending as far south 

 as Cape Colony. 



Grenus Aeaneus Linn. 

 ( = Epeira of authors.) 



Arajstbus natttictts (L. Koch). 



Epeira nautica, L. Koch, Aegyptische und Abyssinische Arach- 

 niden, p. 17, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1875). 



Loc. Taru. 



Almost cosmopolitan in range. 



? Aranetjs similis (Bosenberg and Lenz). 



Epeira similis, Bosenberg and Lenz, Jahrb. Hamb. Wissen. 

 Anst. xii. p. 20, pi. ii. figs. 26-26 b. 



? Epeira suedicola, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. 103 (1890). 



An adult male and a mutilated female from Changamwe and an 

 immature female from Taru are doubtfully referred to this species, 

 recorded by its describers from Quilimane. Judging by the form 

 of the vulva, A. similis and A. striata of Bosenberg and Lenz are 

 closely allied to A. suedicola, which Simon recorded from Arabia 

 and which Pavesi has since recorded from Somaliland (Ann. Mus. 

 Genova, xxxv. p. 498, 1895). 



Araneus beesiprons, sp. n. (Plate XLI. figs. 3-3 b.) 

 Colour. Carapace reddish brown, blackish on the head-region, 

 hairs whitish ; mandibles blackish brown ; sternum, labium, and 

 maxillsB brown ; legs with coxse and trochanters reddish yellow, 

 rest of legs reddish yellow, with the greater part of the femora and 

 the distal end of the tibias blackish, hairs white ; palpi yellowish 

 red ; abdomen nearly uniform cream-white on the upperside, with 

 four sigilla showing as bro^-n spots, sometimes with fine darker 

 longitudinal lines on the posterior part and fine indistinct yellowish 

 vertical lines at the sides ; fore part of abdomen deep black, with a 

 transverse white stripe ; this black, becoming gradually paler, 

 spreads backwards and downwards over the whole of the sides and 

 lower surface of the abdomen as far babk as the spinners, which 

 are themselves brown ; the area between the spinners and the 

 epigastric fold a little darker and ornamented with four white spots, 

 one on each side behind the lung-books, the others farther back 

 and closer together in front of the spinners. 

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