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S P E C I E S II.—A. ACULEATUS.
P R I C K L Y - S P I D E R .
A B O U T the end of May, a lingle female was found in a meadow. Plate 5, fig. 9.
THE fize of the eyes is ihewn by the dots placed before the figure. The legs are all over
hairy, and befet here and there with thick ihag and prickles. . The thighs have two remarkable
prickles, which are five or fix times as long as the others. The thorax longiih, more
flender towards the anterior parts, and of a dulky colour, is marked by a more lucid longitudinal
wave, and is all over covered with unequal long and thick hairs. The abdomen
ovate, dulky, a little brighter towards the thorax, and coated with thick hair of unequal
length. The arms very hairy, and fcattered thinly with hairs of a thicker nature than the reft.
S P E C I E S III.—A. INQUILINUS.
I N M A T E - S P I D E R .
A B O U T the end of September, a female, plate 8, fig. 5, was found at the edge of a web,
made by the Labyrinth Spider ( CHA P . IV.—SPEC. 11.) I kept it a long time, and could never
perceive it fpinning, but it took flies readily upon the wing, like the other Spiders of this
divifion.
THE fize of the eyes is ftiewn by the dots before the figure. The legs are brownifh, very
hairy, and a little aculeated. The thorax hairy, brownifh, a little reddifh, of a rhomboid fhape,
terminating above in a point, and has on each fide two blackifh bows. The abdomen ovate,
brownifh, filky, with many tranfverfe black waves, as fliewn in the figure, and marked
towards the breaft, above the middle of the junfture, with a deep black V. fomewhat brighter
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on the inner part. The arms are brownifh and hairy. The holders ftrong, perpendicular,
very hairy, and armed at the extremities with black claws, and are of a brownifh colour
above, and black beneath.
S P E C I E S IV.—A. LIGNARIUS.
W O O D - S P I D E R .
T H I S fpecies is found plentifully during the whole month of September, in woods, efpecially
coppices, amongfl the brufli-wood, and in hedges. It is all over hairy, and variegated.
Plate 5, fig. 8.
THE eyes are all black, and of the fize reprefented by the dots in the figure. The legs
abound with black hairs and prickles. The thorax ovate, flightly flat, with a narrow longitudinal
facula. The abdomen, of a long oval fhape, is marked with a longitudinal facula
like the thorax.
THE firfl joints of the arms, neareft; the thorax, are covered with black prickles and' white
hairs; the half of the following ones, neareft the breaft, are like the firft pair; but thofe parts
of them which are neareft the fexual organ, have ftifF black hairs and prickles. The male
organ A. is without prickles, but is darkened with black and thick hair. The arms of the
females are hairy and cylindric.
THE holders, together with their claws, are black, and abound towards the eyes with white
hairs. The eggs are feventy or eighty in number, not glued together, but feparate, angular,
of a reddifh yellow, and contained in a flat greenifli bag. In the beginning of June, the
young are excluded.
on SPECIES V.