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is readily seen, but if this is drawn blank we must 

 have recourse to a wall, where sharper eyesight will 

 be required. 



Our quarry is of small size, not more than a 

 quarter of an inch long in the body, which resembles 

 that of the wolf-spiders in build, the abdomen not 

 rising above the level of the fore-body or cephalo- 

 thorax. It is thickly clothed with short hairs black, 

 white, and grey so arranged as to show oblique zebra- 



Fig. 9. "Face" of an Attid spider, shewing the anterior 

 eyes and the chelicerae. 



like stripes on either side of the abdomen. The legs 

 are short and robust, very different from the long 

 thin limbs of the garden-spider ; especially strong 

 are the fore-legs. The head is broad and square, 

 with a high perpendicular forehead, but the most 

 remarkable features are the eyes. 



On the vertical front are four splendid eyes. The 

 wolf-spider's eyes were large, but these, in comparison 

 are immense, especially the median pair. Their axes 

 are directed straight in front. Four other eyes are 



