THE body of this fpecimen was black, with a light (hade on the middle of the back: the
u p p e r fide of the belly aih-colour, and every part was hairy: feelers globular, with pointed
ends: eyes four.—Taken the latter end of April, near Newington.
PLATE II Fig. VII.
THE back of this fpecies was a chefnut colour: belly a deep bronze, with a white mark
joining to the back: legs a light brown, tranfparent and fpotted with black: eyes not difcernible.—
Taken in a garden, at Hackney, in May.
P LATE II. F I G. VIN.
THE back and beUy were a deep flelh colour : upper fide of the belly croffed with feveral
dark lines : the two foremoft legs longeft : two next ihorter : the third pair ihorteft of all;
and the whole of a dark complexion, and longer than generally are feen in Spiders of this
fize: eyes eight.
PLATE IL F I G. IX.
EVERY part of this fpecies was of a brown colour, with a ftreak of light along the back
and belly to the end of the tail: on each fide the light, were thick lines of a dark brown: legs
hairy.—Found near Hampftead-heath, the middle of April.
PLATE IL FIG. X.
T H I S fpecimen was of a dark brown colour, fpotted with white: legs hairy: eyes fix.—
Taken the i oth of September, in a furze-buih, on Hampftead-common.
PLATE in. FIG. I.
THE back and legs were a mixt brown and green colour: upper part of the belly white:
the fides, and under part a light green, beautifully fpotted : feelers a faint green : eyes fix.
PLATE
PLAT E -F I G .
THE upper fide of the belly of this fpecimen was marked chequer-wife, with black and
white: the back was black. It had eight eyes, and is of that fpecies which leap on their prey.
To faciUtate this manoeuvre, nature has enabled them to fpring either forward, backward, or
fide-ways, with equal facility.—Taken in a garden near the middle of September.
P LATE - F I G.
W H E N taken was of a light aih-colour : the upper part of the abdomen marked with
black lines : two ihining black fpots were on the fore-part of the body, three on each fide^
and two between the feelers : in thefe fpots were eight eyes, placed in a femicircular form
the two uppermoft being the largeft. It has been obferved, that thofe fpecies who are of this
defcription, feize their prey by leaping on it.
P LATE
T H I S fpecies was altogether of a light brown colour : with two black ftreaks in the middle
of the back: the upper fide of the belly was finely ftreaked with white: at the end of the
feelers were black pointed knobs: eyes eight.—Taken at Lewiiham,. m Kent, May 6.
P LATE - F I G.
BY the afliftance of magnifying powers, this Spider appeared of a veiy Angular complexion,
and marked in every part with an admixture of the moil brilliant colours. To the naked eye,
however, thefe beauties were concealed by an appearance altogether fpeckled, greyiih,
rough, and hairy. The eyes were lucid, and eight in number: the two center-ones the
largeft. It is one of thofe fpecies who move either way with facility, and leap on their prey.—
Taken in a garden at Hackney.
PLATE
T H I S was alfo one of the leaping fpecies, and altogether of a muddy brown, with fome
dark marks on the upper part of the belly: the under part approaching to a black : eyes
eight.—Found in Caen-wood, near Hampilead, in June.