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ME. H. E. HOGG ON SPIDEES 



gives a drawing of the eyes and male palp of A. reinwardtii Del.* very nearly like this, 

 and I think it may possibly be the same, but there is no proof of it being so. I am 

 unable to find that any description of the male has been published. As the eyes of the 

 front row are equidistant, it belongs to the genus Gea C. Koch and not Argiope. 



Group A r a n e se. 



Genus Aeakeus Clerck. Series I. of E. Simon. 

 Araneus floriatus. (Text-fig. 25.) 



Araneus floriatus Hogg^ Abstract P. Z. S. 1914, p. 57 (Nov. 17). 

 Two females (one non-adult). {Type of the species.) 



The cephalothorax is dark yellow-brown with pale yellowish-white hair, the side-eye 

 tubercles black-brown. The mandibles yellow-brown, fangs rather paler. Lip and 



Text-fiffure 25. 



Araneus floriatus, nat. size. a. Eyes. h. Underside of abdomen, c. Epigyne from above. 

 d. Epigyne from below. 



maxillae yellow-brown, with the usual paler broad edges. Sternum and coxse yellow- 

 brown all over, with yellowish-white hair. Legs yellow, darkest on the femoral joints, 

 with yellow-brown hair. Metatarsus and tarsus quite bright yellow. There are white 

 patches at the anterior end of the femora and dark patches on the upperside at the 

 anterior end of the tibiae ; the spines on the sides are black and white, but those on the 

 upperside brown. The palpi bright yellow-brown all over. 



* Hist. Nat. des Ar. i. 1892, p. 765, figs. 841-3. 



