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S P E C I E S IV.—A. STRIATUS.
S T R E A K E D - S P I D E R .
O N E female was caught, the beginning of Auguft, by a hedge. It is reprefented of its
proper fize, at plate 6, fig. 5, and magnified a little, in order to make it plainer, at B.
THE eyes cherry-coloured, very glofly, with a lucid margin. The proportional length of
the legs, 4, I, 2, and 3. They are furniflied witli many long and ihort hairs, and prickles,
and with brown and light-coloured circles. The thorax rhomboid, hairy, marked on the
anterior part with an inconfpicuous black crofs, next this with a white fpotj then with a
dulliih black crefcent, acuminated towards the anus ; and in the concavity towards the abdomen,
with a longitudinal flender wedge-ihaped facula, which grows blackiih as it approaches
the abdomen. The abdomen ovate, browniih, hairy, with a cuneated longitudinal fegment,
and with fpots, or whitiih rays, in a blackifh bafe, and declining towards each fide. The
ai-ms black ; with the joints furrounded with white hairs. The holders black. The eggs
feven in number, of a modei-ate fize, but fomewhat fmall in proportion to the female, feparate,
round, yellowiih, involved in a thin web.
S P E C I E S v.—A. TEREB RATUS,
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A U G E R - S P I D E R .
I N the beginning of Auguft. this fpecies copulated, plate 9, fig. 2, in the fame manner
the Vth Species of the Wolve,. It is of the fame fize with the preceding fpecies.
THE eyes are cherry-coloured, with a lucid border. The legs, which are in the proportion
of 4, I, 2, and 3, have hairs, prickles, and numerous circles. The thorax flat, rhomboid,
black.
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black, filky, with a lucid marking reprefenting the figure of an auger below, and above of a
trident with greyiih hooks. The abdomen ovate, black, marked longitudinally by a very bright
flender line, at the upper end of which two ihort white little lines projea ; at the other end
four little tranfverfe white lines longer than the upper ones appear, which tend a little downwards.
The fuperior of thefe lines is the longeft; the 2d and 4th, a little lefs, and both of
the fame length : the 3d is very ihort. The arms black, and abounding with circles of hair.
S P E C I E S VI.—A. V. INSIGNITÜS.
D O U B L E 'Y- SPIDER.
XHIS, which is of the fame fize with the two former, was caught in the middle of May, at
the foot of a mountain, in low grafs. Plate 7, fig. 6.
THE eyes are emerald-colour, very glofly. The length of tlie legs could not well be determined,
of which however the 3d and 4th feemed to be longer than the ifl: and 2d. The
thighs of all were greyifti, the other parts black, except the joints, which were flightly marked
with white. The legs were covered with unequal hairs and prickles. The thorax rhomboidal,
black, and hairy, with a double V. between the eyes [Y, ) and a whitifli line on each fide next
the legs. The abdomen ovate, hairy, black, with a white longitudinal line, which is fometimes
yellowifli, or reddifli. As well near the breafl:, as about the anus, were fome longifli
hairs which projefted there, like a fafcicle, or beard. The inferior furface of the abdomen
is entirely whitifli or greyiflr. The arms hairy and greyiih.
O. SPECIES VII.
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