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

 me: — 



Nbphila consteicta Karsch. 



Nepliila constrieta, Karsch, Zeits. gesammt. Naturwiss. lii. p. 834, 

 fig. 4 (1879). 



Loc. Loango coast. 



Genus Arigiope And. et Sav. 



Argiope plavipalpis (Lucas). 



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

 (1858). 



Argiope jlavipalpis, 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 (Surg.-Capt. GUiiients) ; Old Calabar {Miss 

 Kingsley); Cameroons {C apt. Burton and /S'tr Harry Johnston):, 

 Benito Kiver {O. L. Bates). 



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

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

 ni\.mQ pechueli^ and sometimes of a very much darker, more uniform 

 hue as in the typical A.fiavipalpis. The two forms occur at the same 

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

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



Argiope nigrovittata Thorell. 



Argiope nigrovittata, Thorell, (Efv. Vet.-Akad. i'orhandl, 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 Keisen, iii. 2, 

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

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



Genus Aeaneus Linn. 

 Aeaneus rupipalpis (Lucas). 



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



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

 p. 334 (1879) ( 5 ) ; Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Erance, ix. p. 14, pl.ii. 

 figs. 7-8 (1884) (c?,?). 



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



Loc. Sierra Leone {Surg.-Capt. Clements)', Accra {G. A. Higlett); 

 Cameroons {Gapt. Burton); Benito Eiver {0. 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 



