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Of thefe infefts, therefore, which in reality are not Spiders, though fo named by the older
writers, who appear to have examined them but flightly, I ihall merely give the general
charaders, illuftrated by the figures, at plate 9, fig. i , 3, and 5; and briefly mention the reafons
which forbid them to be placed amongit the real Spiders.
I. THESE Binocular or Two-eyed Spiders, have the thorax and abdomen united into one
body or trunk, without any divifion or junaure, as in the true Spiders. 2. They have not
eight eyes, like real Spiders, but only two, and differently fituated from thofe of Spiders.
3. Their legs are totally unlike thofe of Spiders.
FROM the above circumftances of difcrepancy, I have therefore thought myfelf juftified in
omitting the Binocular-Spiders, as not properly belonging to the genuine ones.
THIS opinion I alfo propofed to the illuftrious LINNAEUS, who was pleafed not only to
confirm it, but likewife aflured me, " That in his own works, the Fauna Suecica, andSyjlema
" Natura, now about to be publiihed, he had feparated the above infeds from the proper
" Spiders, and placed them in a diftinfl genus."
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