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CHAP. X. 

 OF INSECTS AND REPTILES. 



T N S E C T S and Reptiles are numerous, and might fill a volume. 

 -*- I mall only take notice of fuch as are moft remarkable for their 

 beauty and curiofhy, and mall point out in my way their culi- 

 . nary, medical, tinftorial, and other ufes. 



1. In warm fummers, the 'white andfcarlet Aranea or Spider (a), 

 is not unfrequent in gardens. The legs are moderately long, 

 white, and pellucid ; the anterior articulations black. The un- 

 der part of the body is of a fulphur-yellow. The upper part is 

 white, fometimes yellowifh, with a coronated circle on the back 

 of a bright and beautiful fcarlet, and within it an oblong line of 

 a bright brown. I have often obferved it in my garden at Simon- 

 burn. 



2. The dark grey and gold-yelloiv Spider (b) is fometimes about 

 old walls, and ruinous buildings. It is moderately large. The 



under 



(a) Araneus albicans corona coccinea in a!vo ovali. Lijl. Aran. 51. f. 12. Raj. Inf. 

 p. 24. n. 12. Araneus horteniis albus ferto dorfjli cinnabarino-rubro. Frijib. Germ. 10. 

 p. 6. t. 4. Aranea abdomine flavo ; annulo ovali dorfali rubro. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 354. 

 n. 1227. 



(b) Araneus parvus fubrufus inauratus, ipfa alvi apica .inr'ufcata, levipes. J-lJl. Aran. 

 p. 85. t. 30. Araneus truncorum albo nigroque varius, Frlfch. Germ. 10. p. 16. t. 14. 



Y y ?, Aranea 



