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S P E C I E S II.—A. MARGARITATUS.
P E A R L - C O L O U R E D - S P I D E R .
O f all the Spders I have feen, this is a fpecies the leaft unpleafing to the eye. The general
title of this divifion applies to this fpecies, as well as the former. It is not one of the largeft
fize, but it is one of the handfomeft, and is eafily found, at about fix in the evening, in the
month of June, about hedges. It is of a uniform colour. Plate 11, fig. i.
THE eyes are black, and of a triangular ihape. The legs are in the proportion of 2, 3, i,
and 4 ; they are white, with two black claws, and are covered with confufed fpecks, and with
many hairs, briftles, and prickles. Some of the hairs are black, others white, and feveral have
the inner fide white, and the outer black; thus caufing an agreeable diverfity. The thorax
nearly round, though flightly flat; almoft entirely covered with hairs, which are more lucid
in the middle part, and black towards the legs. The abdomen flat, nearly round, but with
the neck, or part near the thorax, pyramidal : all over hairy. Its colour is a compofition of
black and white, fo mixed as to produce a mofl: elegant pearl-colour over the whole animal.
At the extremity of the abdomen, and efpecially in the female, two lucid cavities appear,
which are marked with two black fpecks, as in the figure. The ai'ms of the male have obtufe
and downy globules (fee A.) and the exterior fide of the fécond joint is very hairy, as
well as the tubercle or globule. The arms of the female are cylindric, and abound with
hair; with many prickles round the joints. The fame elegant pearl-colour appears on thefe
as on the other parts of the animal. The holders have many afli-coloured hairs, and are furniihed
with black claws. I have fed feveral of thefe Spiders with flies, but they did not feem
very fond of them: they liked tht Aphides, or Plant-lice, better, though thefe did not feem
to be their proper food. On the 7th of July, I obferved the females laying their eggs,
covering them with a thin web, and continually ftanding over them. They are feparate,
round, and as reprefented at B. One female lays about 100. The young come out about
the end of July.
SPECIES III.
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S P E C I E S III.—A. AUREOLUS.
G O L D E N - S P I D E R »
T H E S E were found, the middle of July, on the tops of trees, fitting upon their bags, and
guarding them within a veftibule of fcattered threads. Plate 11, fig. 4.
THE eyes are placed in a triangular form ; the loweft are fmallifli, and the four upper
rather larger. The legs are in the proportions of 2, i, 3, and 4. They are whitiih, with
red joints, and have many miequal hairs, briftles, and prickles. The thorax ovate, flightly
convex, all over filky; with a facula running through the middle, and a white inconfpicuous
border near the legs, which is brighter near the abdomen. The abdomen ovate, filky, and
has a wedge, or mark of brown, furrounded by a lucid border, fomewhat obfcure towards
the anus : to this fucceed two flames or waves, which end in a crimfon border, with which
the upper part of the abdomen is terminated. The abdomen on its under part is greyiih,
with a cinereous longitudinal fegment. The arms whitiih, with fmoke-coloured joints, and
furniflied with black hairs, briftles, and prickles. The holders brownifti, perpendicular, with
a fine white down. The eggs about forty or fifty in each mafs, moderately large, round,
grey, efpecially towards the time of hatching. The young, which come forth about the beginning
of the dog-days, are fomewhat dark at firft..
S P E C I E S IV.—A. FORMICINUS.
A N T - S P I D E R .
A B O U T the middle of June, one female was caught, near an ant-heap, at tlie foot of a hilh
Plate 10, fig. 3.
THE eyes are black, and placed in form of a triangle: the four intermediate ones very
fmall, the two outer ones rather larger, and the two remaining ones very large; as appears
by