850 ME. B. I. POCOCK OK SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [Nov. 14, 



E. semiannulata were based upon examples belonging to tlie same 

 species. Karsch's figure of the palp of E. penicillijjes resembles 

 that organ in male examples of E. rufipal^is sent by Mr. Bates. 



Aeaneus theis (Walck.). 



Epeira theis, Walckenaer, Ins. Apt. ii. p. 53. 



Epeira moreli, Vinson, Araaeides de Madagascar, etc. p. 166, 

 pi. iv. fig. 4 (1863). 



Epewa eclipsis, Marx, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 590, pi. ixx. 

 figs. 6 a-Q b. 



This widely distributed tropical species was recorded from the 

 Congo as Epeira eclipsis by Marx. The British Museum has no 

 W. African representatives of it, but has received it in some 

 abundance from Mashonaland (G.A. K. Marshall). 



Akaneus pachanus Poc. 



Araneus pachanus, Poc. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii. p. 447, 

 pi. xiii. fig. 9 (1898). 



Loc. Benito Biver (6r. L. Bates). Several $ examples. 



Previously recorded from Karagesi (Emin Pasha) and Buwenzori 

 (Scott Elliot). 



This species presents a striking likeness, both in colour, form, and 

 structural details, to the Oriental species that has been described as 

 A. decens, rumpfi, rufofemoralis, &c. But the shape of the vulva 

 seems to separate the African species, the scape being longer and 

 the basal portion much more prominent beneath it. 



Araneus h^matoonemis, sp. n. (Plate LVI. figs. 8-8 c) 



Colour. Carapace either a uniform blackish brown or reddish 

 brown above, passing into black towards the margins ; upperside 

 of abdomen either uniformly blackish brown or ornamented with 

 yellow on the anterior half — the yellow taking the form sometimes 

 of a median field pointed in front and behind, broadest across the 

 shoulder region, breaking up into spots all round its margin and 

 interrupted along the middle line by an irregular black stripe ; 

 sometimes of a sharply defined median stripe, broadest in front 

 and constricted in the middle and at the posterior end ; sometimes 

 of a transverse recurved stripe behind the large sigilla, the 

 extremities of which extend backward as an indistinct yelloM' 

 stripe on each side circumscribing a median jet-black area which 

 occupies the position of the folium. (In a young specimen the 

 abdomen is testaceous, with jet-black folium and bright yellow 

 median constricted stripe in front of it.) Sides and lower surface 

 of abdomen black. Sternum, labium, maxillae, and mandibles deep 

 blackish brown ; legs with coxse and femora uniformly blackish 

 brown ; patellae, tibiae, and protarsi darker or lighter red, with 

 their distal ends black, and frequently a median band ; tarsi black, 

 with narrow red basal band. 



Carapace moderately elevated ; fovea subeircular, with longitu- 



