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Show 848 MR. R. i. POCOCK O N SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [NOV. 14, Family ARGIOPID^E. Genus NEPHILA Leach. NEPHILA FEMORALIS (Lucas). Epeira femoralis, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 38, pl. xii. fig. 4 (1858). Nephila vittata, Keys. SB. Isis, Dresden, 1863, p. 142, pl. ii. fig. Loc. Sierra Leone (Surg.-Capt. Clements) ; Liberia (Keyserling Coll., type of N. vittata); Gold Coast (T. E. Bowdich) ; Ashanti (W. H. Adams); Asaba, 150 miles up Niger (Dr. Crosse); Accra and Wassan (G. A. Higlett) ; Cameroons (Capt. Burton, Miss Kingsley); Old Calabar (Miss Kingsley, H. A. Spencer); Benito Biver (G. L. Bates) ; Stanley Falls, Congo ; Angola. NEPHILA LUCASI Simon. Epeira chrysogaster, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 35 (not chrysogaster, Leach). Nephila lucasi, Simon, Ann. Soc Ent. France, 1887, p. 270. Loc. Sierra Leone (Surg.- Capt. Clements); Ashanti (Mr. Macarthy); Accra (G. A. Higlett); Cameroons (Capt. Burton, Miss Kingsley); Benito Eiver (G. L. Bates); Wathen on the Congo (Miss Macormick). NEPHILA PILIPES (Lucas). Epeira pilipes, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 40, pl. xiii. fig. 7. Loc. Fantee, Accra (G. A. Higlett) ; Benito Biver (G. L. Bates). NEPHILA BRAGANTINA Brit. Capello. Nephila bragantina, Brit. Capello, M e m . Ac. Sci. Lisboa, (3) iv. pt. 1: Descripcao de algunas especies de . . . . Arachnideos, p. 11, pl. ii. fig. 4. Loc. Braganza, interior of Angola (Brit. Gap.). 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. bragantina differs from N.keyserlingii Blackw. ( = hymencea Gerst.) in having the palpi black, the legs black wdth the exception of a yellow band at the tip of the tibia and base of protarsus of 1st and 2ud legs, and no dark band in the middle of the sternum. NEPHILA CRUENTATA (Fabr.). Araneus cruentatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 427 (1793). Nephila genualis, Gerst. Von der Decken's Beisen, iii. 2, p. 502 (1873). Loc. Sierra Leone (D. F. Morgan, Surg.-Capt. Clements); Ashanti (Mr. Macarthy); Onitsha on the Niger (Sir J. Marshall) ; Old Calabar (H. A. Spencer); Congo (J. Pinnock); Stanley Falls, Congo. |
