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THE eyes are black; the lateral ones almoft concreted; the interior rather larger than the
exterior.
THE legs, which are marked with alternate whitiih fpots, abound with whitifli hairs and
black prickles.
THE thorax is ovate, black, flat, with a white margin, and is all over as if greyifli with
white hairs.
THE abdomen is ovate, black, and remarkable for a foliaceous marking, ihaded as it were
by a filky web, which the figure better exprefles than words. It is connected at about a third
of its length with the thorax; yellow femi-circles furround the fexual organ beneath.
THE arms are covered with unequally long hairs, briftles, and prickles.
THE holders are perpendicular, black, and towards the eyes flightly hirfute.
ABOUT the middle of June, a male was taken in a web, on the precipice of a mountain.
Plate I, fig. 7. Black lines drawn tranfverfely over the abdomen, and two angles on the
upper part of it, diftinguilh this particularly. I dare not affirm certainly whether it be a
diftinfl fpecies, or whether it belong (which, however, I doubt) to one of thofe already
defcribed. In the mean time, it is here fet down without a number, under the title of_
virgatus, flriped.
THE eyes are very fmall; the two laft fide ones fmalleft, and almoil joined to thofe next
them.
THE legs are alternately girt with black and greyiih circles, and are coated with unequal
hairs and briftles: they alfo abound with prickles.
THE thorax is ovate, flat, darkifli, and thickly coated with white down.
THE abdomen is ovate, although two remarkable angles, which form a flattifli fpace on the
upper part, give it a triangular figure. Through the angles runs a thicker and blacker line,
marked in the middle with a white dot. White waves feem to tend obliquely towards each
fide. The thoracic juncture is fixed at about a third part of the abdomen.
THE arms of the male are ovate, black, and unequally hirfute, and terminate in the
fexual organs.
THE holders are black, hairy, and perpendicular, with blackifh hooks.
S P E C I E S XI.
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S P E C I E S XI.—A. SCLOPETARIUS.
G U N - S P I D E R .
T H I S is met with about the middle of June. Plate 2, fig. I •
THE fide-eyes are almoft joined.
THE legs, which are hairy, abound with large black prickles. The junñure is black: the
thighs are greyifli, or even milk-white, and black towards the joints. The remaining part
of the leg is girt with greyifli and dulky bands.
THE thorax, fomewhat duflcy, rather flat, ornamented with a narrow white border towards
the feet, abounds towards the eyes with white down.
THE abdomen is ovate, downy, and black, is greyifli, and undulated at each fide. The
figure fliews its fingular marking better than any verbal defcription.
THE arms of the male, fig. 3, letter (a), have the laft joint brownifli and downy; in the
hollow of which, (b), lies the fexual organ, which projefts on being touched.—c) reprefents
the laft joint but one: it is whitifli, and has two longer, with two fliorter briftles. The
figure fliews thefe particulars clearer than a long defcription.
THE holders are black, very little downy, and perpendicular.
THE eggs are about thirty.
THE young are hatched about the beginning of the dog-days.
S P E C I E S XII.—A. CUCURBITINUS.
G O U R D - S P I D E R .
T H I S fpecies frequents leafy trees in July and Auguft.
THE figure, plate 2, fig. 6, is rather larger than life.
THE fide-eyes are contained in one cavity.
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