848 MB. R. I. POCOCK ON SCORPIOlirS, PEDIPALPS, [NoV. 14, 



Family Argiopid^. 



Genus Nephila Leach. 



Nephila temoealis (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.-Oapt. Clements) ; Liberia {Keyserling 

 Coll., type of N. vittata) ; Gold Coast {T. E. Boivdicli) ; Ashanti 

 {W. H. Adams); Asaba, 150 miles up Niger {D7\ Crosse); Accra 

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

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

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



Nephila luoasi Simon. 



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

 clirysogaster, Leach). 



NepMla lucasi, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1887, p. 270. 



Loc. Sierra Leone (Surg.- Capt. Clements); Ashanti {Mr. MacartJiy); 

 Accva {G. A. Higlett) ; Cameroons {Capt. Burton, Miss Kingsley); 

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

 MacormicJc). 



Nephila pilipes (Lucas). 



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

 fig. 7. 

 Loc. Eantee, Accra {G. A. Higlett) ; Benito Eiver {G. L. Bates). 



Nephila bragantina Brit. CapeUo. 



Nephila hragantina, Brit. CapeUo, Mein. Ac. Sci. Lisboa, (3) iv. 

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

 pi. ii. fig. 4. 



Loc. Braganza, interior o£ 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. { = hymencm Gerst.) in having 

 the palpi black, the legs black with the exception of a yeUow 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 gruentata (Fabr.). 



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



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

 (1873). 



Loc. Sierra Leone (Z). i^. -Morgan, Surg. -Capt. Clements); Kshaxiti 

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

 Calabar {H. A. Spencer) ; Con^ {J, PinnocJc) ; Stanley Falls, Congo. 



