CORRESPONDENCE. 



HARRIS TO HENTZ. 



MILTON, August 19, 1824. 



THIS will announce to you the entire failure in the publica- 

 tion of the late Professor Peck's Lectures, and I regret also 

 that the time which you have devoted towards that object is 

 to be lost. 



I have met with but a few spiders ; none perhaps on inspec- 

 tion will appear new to you. One very large species, which 

 forms a web on bushes, must be a formidable enemy to the 

 winged creation. It is velvety black, with six spots of light 

 yellow on the abdomen ; eyes eight, in two double rows which 

 curve backwards ; mandibles strong, hairy and toothed beneath 

 and terminated with a short, crooked claw ; fourth pair of feet 

 the longest ; third pair shortest ; first and second pairs nearly 

 equal ; legs with a few scattered bristly hairs ; maxilke and lip 

 obtuse, and very hairy. The sketch I have added may perhaps 

 bring the species to your recollection if you have ever seen 

 it ; it is exactly of the natural size. I would observe that the 

 two largest eyes are not round, but irregular, and, at first 



