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Fabr. 1775 (from Madeira) probably no more belongs to this spe- 

 cies than Ar. fasciata Poiret 1787, but is most likely identical with 

 Ar. trifasciata Forsk. or Ep. aurelia Sav. et Aud. (see the species 

 next following). At all events the name fasciata for the spider be- 

 fore us is more recent than that given by Scopoli, which must there- 

 fore be restored. — Among the synonyms of this species Walckenaer 

 includes n Ar. sacrariorum Pallas" , but this is not right. Pallas has 

 nowhere called it Ar. sacrariorum: he only states, that his Ar. spe- 

 ciosa had received from the Cossacks of Jaik a name, which would be 

 rendered into Latin by the words aranea sacrariorum. — That the 

 species does not belong to the genus Nephila Leach, but to Argiope 

 Sav. et Aud., I ha^e elsewhere demonstrated (On Eur. Spid., p. 51). 



As regards Nephila iransalpina C. Koch, Koch himself informs 

 us (Die Arachn., XI, p. 160), that it is nothing else than a speci- 

 men of his N. fasciata, the colours of which had faded. 



Epeira fasciata Cantor ') is a species quite different from E. 

 fasciata Walck., cet., or Argiope Bruennichii (Scop.). 



(Pag. 497.) Argyopes aurelia. 



* Argiope trif asciata (Forsk.) 1775. 



Synx 1775. Aranea TRIFASCIATA Forsk., Descript. Anim., p. 86. 



1775. „ ■ „ id., Icon. rer. natural, p. 7, Tab. XXIV, fig. E. 



?1775. „ FASCIATA Fadr., Syst. Ent., p. 433. 



?1787. „ „ Poiret, Sur quelques Ins. de Barbarie, in Obs. sur 



la Phys., sur l'Hist. Nat. et sur 1. Arts (Journ. 

 de Phys.), XXXI, p. 114, PL I, fig. 3. 

 1825—7. Argyope aurelia Sav. et Aud., Descr. de l'Egypte, 2e Ed., XXII, 



p. 331, Arachn., PI. II, fig. 5. 

 1830. Epeira aurelia Walck., Faune Fran?., Arachn., p. 239. 

 184.. „ Webbii Luc, in Webb et Berth., H. N. d. lies Canaries, 



Entom., p. 38, PI. VI, fig. 5. 

 1867. Nephila aurelia Blackw., Notes on Spid., cet., in Ann. and Mag. 



of Nat. Hist., 3 Ser., XX, p. 210 (10). 



in Carniolia. Palpi longi. Thorax subrotundatus albo villo pubescens. Abdomeu 

 albo-luteum , fasciis 10 lineisque tribus transversis nigris." 



Ar. Linncci Scop, is, as is known, = Epeira diademata (Clerck). By ,- fa- 

 sciae" Scopoli evidently means the bands which reach down to the sides of the 

 abdomen, by "lineae" the shorter bands lying between these, and which in speci- 

 mens with 13 separate bands are really 3 in number. 



l) General Features of Chusan etc. , in Ann. of Nat. Hist, IX (1842), 

 p. 492. 



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