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THE legs are greeniih, and have hairs, briftles, and black prickles.
THE thorax is flat, downy, and of a greenifli brown.
THE abdomen is ovate, greenifli, adorned with yellow lines and black fpecks, and is befet
with black hairs.
THE arms are covered with hairs, briilles, and black prickles.
THE holders are whitiih and perpendicular.
THE eggs, which are about forty, cohere in a mafs of the fize of a pea, and are involved,
in a ftifF greenifli flue. Fauna Suec. \ 12
S P E C I E S XIII.—A. SEGMENTATUS.
^ PA T C H E D - S P I D E R .
F R E Q U E N T the beginning of September, out of their webs, with a thread fafl:ened to one
of their legs. Plate i, fig. i. I have not obferved any of thefe to make a particular web for
their ova, as many of the former do.
THE eyes are confpicuous, and black.
THE legs brownifli, and roughened with hairs of unequal length, and black prickles.
THE tliorax ovate, brownifli, glofly, without down.
THE abdomen ovate, covered with very foft down, like filk.
THE males have the abdomen reddifli and blue, fig. i ; but in the females it is yellow, with
a longitudinal ray, and two lucid marks towards the fides. On the upper part of the female
are alfo four black points, fig. 2.
THE arms are whitifli and hairy: thofe of the male terminate in black balls, whence hangs
a procefs, refembhng a cock's fpur, of a blackifli colour. Thofe of the female are round and
blackifli at the end.
THE holders are brownifli, glofly, and perpendicular.
S P E C I E S XIV.
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S P E C I E S XIV.—LITERA X. NOTATUS.
X - M A R K E D - S P I D E R .
T H E females of this fpecies are found in the middle of September; they weave a regular
web, and when terrified by handling, will feem as if dead, but not for any long time. Some
of them prefer fitting out of their web, with a thread from the centre of it fafliened to one
leg. Plate 2, fig. 2.
THE eyes are large and black.
THE legs hairy, briftly, and prickly, and furrounded by fafcite.
THE thorax ovate, nearly round and brownifli, except the letter (V), which is black, but
fcattered over with extremely fine down.
THE abdomen is nearly globular, downy like filk and black. The aftronomical charafter of
the fign Tifces, or a letter (x) is feen on the upper or fore-part; it is of a greyifli colour,
and is, as it were, fupported below, or towards the anus, by various dots and confufed fpecks,
which are gradually more and more obfcure.
THE arms are hairy, briflily, and prickly.
THE holders brownifli, the divaricated extremities of which are armed with black hooks,
or claws.
C H A P T E R III.
OF WEB-SPIDERS OF THE SECOND KIND, OR
I R R E G U L A R - S P I D E R S.
I- A T firft fight their manner of weaving is difagreeable; but when it is attentively confidered,
it appears no lefs artificial than that of others.
2. THEY extend long threads between the larger boughs of trees and flirubs, comprehending
a large fpace, and fill up the intei-vals in fuch a manner with fliorter threads, conneóled
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