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length takes up at leaft a third part of the upper fide of the abdomen. In each fide of this
figure, and in a right line, an angle is apparent; hence a third part of the upper fide of the
abdomen appears triangular.
THE arms are tuberous, globofe, and-fprinkled with long and ihort hairs intermixed.
THE holders are blackiih.
ON tlie firft of September a female was found, as reprefented in plate I, fig. 6. On the
9 t h , il.e laid a parcel of eggs a l m o f t as big as a horfe-bean. The eggs, being fiightly glued
together, might be feparated with care. They were yellowilh, very large, and about fifty m
number, wrapped up in black roughifli flue, faftened by threads of a footy colour within,
but greyiih and loofe on the outfide. They feemed faftened to the wall of her cell. On tlae
loth ihe was found in a dying ftate, and dead on the i ith.
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THE abdomen is ovate, fomewhat dulky, and fprinkled with yellow, and in fome with
reddiih. It is covered with a white down, and with long hairs projefting on eveiy fide : It is
marked with greyiih little fpots, in the form of a diamond-crofs, and with blackiih undulations
placed obliquely on each fide, but beneath, around the fexual organ, is a dark
oblong line.
THE arms are befet with hairs, briftles, and prickles of different lengths.
THE holders are black, with white thinly-fcattered down upon their upper furface.
ON the 30th of Auguft I found one female, plate 3, fig. 5, in every refpeft like the former,
except the marks on the upper fide of the abdomen, which were not difpofed in the fame
manner: the dots forming the crofs there, were very fmall and fcarcely vifible, and placed in
a different order. If this ihould be thought a new fpecies, it may be called pekg.
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S P E C I E S II.—A DIADEMA.
C R O W N - S P I D E R .
O N the .2d of July, the fpecies reprefented on plate 2, fig. 5, was ready for copulation.
Thefe may always be found in fine weather, but of different fizes. When they are full grown
lircolourand'formchange. They caft their fkin three times. I ihould have doubted w e
ther ichneumons ever depofited their eggs in the bodies of Spiders, had not this fp. ies twic
convinced me of it. They guard againft autumnal frofts and ftorms, by making a thick
globular cell, with the funnel for entrance beneath.
THE eyes on each fide are clofe together in the fame hollow. , . ^ ^ •
THE legs are adorned with alternate circles of white and grey, and are covered with hairs,
briftles, and prickles of different lengths.
THE thorax is heart-ihaped, flat, rather dufky, and thinly fcattered over with fine
white down.
S P E C I E S III. A. QUADRATUS.
s ARE-SPIDER.
T H I S fpecies is found full-grown, and common in the beginning of September, on flirubs
about open fields, plate 7, fig. 5. It makes a large web of thick threads, and ufually refides
in a clofe ceU, over the funnel, with a thread from the centre of the net faftened to one of its
hind legs, in order to be more certain of any prey that is catched in the net.
THE eyes are black and large.
THE legs are haiiy, briftly, and prickly. The hairs white, but the prickles commonly
black, except fome which have white tips.
THE breàft ovate, whitifh. fiattifh, with a fmoke-coloured line, in a longitudinal diredion,
which is covered with fine down.
THE abdomen is ovate, bright, thinly fcattered over with fine down, and long hairs. The
junfture by which it is attached to the thorax, is fituated nearly at the middle of its lower
furface. Down the length of it is itretched a line, confifting of white dots with reddiih maTrhgienrse.