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ABACHNIDA. 



CHAPTEE XII. 



ARACHNIDA.* 



THE Arachnidans, long confounded with the Insects, 

 and still commonly described as such, are distin- 

 guished from the true members of the insect world 

 by characters so conspicuous, that the necessity for 

 considering them as a distinct class must be obvious 

 to any one. 



FlG. 144. SKDEBS. 



In Insects, as we have seen above, the body pre- 

 sents three principal divisions, the head, the thorax, 

 and the abdomen ; but in the spider tribes, the blood- 



* apery*/??, arachne, a spider. 



