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PLATE III. FIO. VII.
THE upper part of the back was a fliining black: lower part of the belly inclining to a red:
the belly black, and marked with a lighter colour, refembling a leaf: legs a dark red, fpotted
with black: it had eight eyes, but they were fcarcely difcernible.—Taken in a cellar the
latter end of April.
P LATE in. F I G. VIII.
THIS fpecimen was of a dark aih-colour, every part being curioufly fpotted with black,
and a ftreak of white in the middle of the back and upper fide of the belly: the legs were
of a lighter colour than the other parts: the fpecks fmaller: eyes fix: the two foremoft
the leaft.—Taken in Auguft.
P LATE in. -F I G. IX.
THIS fpecies had a ftripe of orange-colour on the middle of the back, and down the center
of the upper fide of the belly: this ftripe was edged with a border of black: the outer
edges of which were compofed of fmall black lines, forming as it were a faint ihade, ending
in white: legs a chefnut-colour: the feelers had thick knobs at their ends, but ending in
points: eyes four.—Taken in Caen-wood April 14.
PLATE m. FIG. X.
THIS Spider of a pale red colour: the back of a curious circular fhape, from the middle
of which the head rifes, and forms, as it were, a bunch: the upper fide of the belly was marked
with dark brown lines and ftripes : legs and feelers hairy, the latter having pointed knobs at
their end: tails forked: eyes eight. A fimilar one, but of a larger fize, and darker
coloured, was taken under the coping of Hyde-park wall Auguft 24.
PLATE IV. FIG. I.
THE body and legs were a fine brown : the upper fide of the belly whitifli, with two rows
of brown fpots: globular knobs were at the end of the feelers: legs long: eyes four.—
Taken in Caen-wood the latter end of April.
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PLATE IV. FIG. II.
THE belly of this Spider viz^ a very dark brown: the body lighter coloured, as were alfo
the legs, which were fpotted : eyes not difcernible.—Taken in April.
PLATE IF. FIG. III.
This fpecies was entirely of a yellow-green colour: feelers ilender.—Taken the middle of
April, in Caen-wood.
PLATE IV. FIG. IV.
EVERY part of thi? fpecimen was of a light brown, except the upper fide of the belly,
which was curioufly fpotted: feelers flender: eyes four.—Taken, near Hornfey-wood, the
middle of May.
PLATE TV. FIG. V.
THE whole of this Spider was alfo of a brown colour ; and from the effeft produced by
the fingular blending of the markings on the belly, that part had the appearance of being
fquare: the two fore-legs the longeft: feelers fmall.—Taken the middle of April, in Caen-wood.
PLATE IK -FIG. VI.
THE body and legs were a light red : on each fide the belly was a row of dark coloured
fpots; and the end of the tail was tipt with fcarlet: feelers fmall, and of a tranfparent
green : eyes black, and fix in number.—Taken in a web, on an elm-tree, in Epping-foreft,
the beginning of May. A fmaller one was caught, at the fame time, with fimilar markings.
PLATE IV. F I G. VII.
THIS fpecimen was of a light afli-colour, with a white mark in the middle of the back: and
a fimilar one in the center of the upper fide of its belly : legs hairy : eyes eight.—Taken in
July. A ball, which it held faft with its legs, when opened, contained a number of minute
Spiders, all black.
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