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course of ensconsing his form in some secure retreat, from 
which he emerges in the first bright days of spring, again 
_ to spin his ample web, and spread its meshes across the 
open glades, and from branch to branch of the sweet- 
scented cedars. 
The large house-spider of Bermuda is quite as large as 
the former species, but different in shape and colour. In 
the hot months, before a gale commences, this spider makes 
its way into the houses, sometimes carrying under its body 
the bag containing the young, and takes up a position in 
some snug nook or corner until the storm be past. We 
took a bag from one of these insects for a specimen ; it is 
exactly the size of a sixpence, flattened in shape, and 
rounded at the edges. Mr. Hurdis furnishes the following 
note concerning this species. “April 19th, 1855. Mea- 
sured the span of the common large brown spider on the 
parlour wall, by rule and compass, and found it to be four 
and a half inches. This spider had inhabited the same 
room for many weeks.” 
A species with very minute body and amazing long legs 
of most elegant and slender proportions, inhabited an out- 
house at Hermitage, where, in the corners of the walls, were 
several separate webs of small size, each occupied by one 
of these insects, which, on our approaching close, com- 
menced vibrating its web so quickly as to make the spider 
invisible to the eye. This species is known under the name 
of “ Ringer” on the Islands. 
Two or three other species, about the size of our common 
English Spider, were common under the stones in the cedar 
groves, and a very pretty kind about the same size, and of 
