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PLATE XLIX. 



ARANEA DIADEM A. 



White Cross, Spider. 



Aptera. 



No wings. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Legs eight. Eyes eight. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Abdomen gibbous, red-brown, with white fpots in the form of 

 31 crofs. 



Syji. Ent. ^2'^. 13. — Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 1030. i. 

 — Ffi. Sv. 1993. 

 Aranea cruciger. — Degeer. Inf. 7. 218. i. Tab. ii. Fig. 3. 

 Aranea Linnaei, — Scop. cam. 1077. 



Mouff. Inf. 233. Fig. I. 



Aldrov. Inf. 608. Fig. 9. 



Tonji. Inf. Tab. 18. Fig. 1 7. 1 9. 20, 



Raj. Inf. 18. 2. 



Liji. Aran. Fig. 2. 



Frifch. Inf 7. Tab. 4. 



Clerk. Aran. Tab. 21. Fig. 1, 



Schaeff. Elem. Tab. 11. Fig. 2. 



• Icon. Tab. 19. Fig, 9. 



The Genus Aranea includes a vaft, if not endlefs variety of fpecies, 

 and though the greateft diHImilarity may be obferved as to fize, pro- 

 portion, or colouring, of many individual kinds, yet the rapacioufnefs 



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