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Observations. I do not remember where this was found, 

 and it would be well to know what web it makes. It has all 

 the characters of Tegenaria. It must have been some time in 

 whiskey, and the color may have changed. 



Habitat. Alabama. 



Genus Agelena. Walck. 



Characters. Cheliceres strong; maxillce slightly inclined, 

 rounded externally ; lip conical, as long as, or more than half 

 the length of the maxilla > ; eyes eight, equal, two anteriorly, four 

 in a row curved anteriorly, two behind the intermediate ones of 

 the second line; feet, fourth pair longest, then the first, then the 

 second, the third being the shortest, upper mammidoe very long. 



Habits. Araneides sedentary, making in the fields, on 

 bushes or stumps, a large horizontal web, with a tubular habita- 

 tion, the web connected with strong crossed threads extending 

 high above it. 



Remarks. The name of Walckenaer is preserved for the 

 reasons given in the remarks upon Tegenaria. 



No spider is more common or familiar to the eye of every 

 [465] one who rambles in the fields than the first species of 

 this sub-genus. Its habitus is totally different from that of 

 Tegenaria ; it is very voracious, attains an immense size, and 

 probably lives many years. 



1. Agelena nsevia? Bosc. 

 PI. 12, fig. 1,1a, young. 



Description. Rufous hairy, cephalothorax with two longi- 

 tudinal black bands, abdomen blackish, with two longitudinal 

 rows of whitish dots. Feet very hairy, with joints terminated 

 bv a blackish ring. 



Observations. This species, common in the United States, 

 makes a large horizontal web, spread on bushes or on the grass, 

 with a tubular retreat which terminates in some crevice in the 

 ground, a stump, or any convenient hole to hide itself; strong 



