PULMONARIiE. 
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CiiUBioNA, Lat. 
This subgenus is only distinguished from the following one by the 
nearly equal length of the exterior fusi, and by the straightness of the 
line formed by the four anterior eyes. The Clubionee construct 
silky tubes under stones, in chinks of walls, or between leaves. Their 
cocoons are globular 
Aranea. 
The true Aranese, which we at first designated by the generic ap- 
pellation of Tegenaria, retained by Walckenaer, and to which we add 
his Angelenae and Nyssi, have their two superior fusi much longer 
than the others, and their four anterior eyes arranged in a line pos- 
teriorly ai’cuated or forming a curve. 
They construct in our houses, in the angles of walls, on plants, 
hedges, along the roads, in the earth, and under stones, a large and 
nearly horizontal web, at the upper part of which is a tube where 
they remain motionless f . 
Then follow the Naiades of Walckenaer, or our aquatic Tubitelae, 
which form the 
Argyroneta, Lat. 
The jaws are inclined on the ligula, which is triangular. Th 
two eyes of each lateral extremity of the ocular group are closely 
approximated and placed on a particular eminence ; the four others 
form a quadrilateral. 
Argijroneta aquatica ; Aranea aquatica, L., Geoff., Deg. 
Blackish brown, the abdomen darker ; silky ; four depressed 
points on the back. It is found on the stagnant waters of Europe, 
where it swims with the abdomen enclosed in a bubble of air ; 
it forms an oval cell, filled with air, and lined with silk, from 
which various threads extend to the surrounding plants. Here 
it lies in wait for its prey, deposits its cocoons, which it carefully 
watches, and encloses itself to pass the winter. 
In the second section of the sedentary and rectigrade spiders, that 
of the Inequitel^, the external papillae are nearly conical, project 
but little, are convergent, and form a rosette ; the legs are very slen- 
der. The jaws incline over the lip, and become narrower at their 
superior extremity, or at least do not sensibly widen. 
Most of them have the first pair of legs longest, and then the 
fourth. The abdomen is more voluminous, softer, and more coloured 
than in the preceding tribes. Their webs form an irregular net 
composed of threads Avhich cross each other in every direction, and 
on several planes. They lie in Avait for their prey, display much 
* Aranea holosericea, L. ; Degeer, Fab. ; Walck., Hist, des Aran. IV, iii, fern. ; 
— Aranea atrosc. Deg., Fab. : List., Aran,, XXI, 21 ; Albin, Aran., X, 48, and 
XVII, 82. See also Tab. des Aran., and the Faun. Paris., Walckenaer. 
•f- Aranea domestiea, L., Deg., Fab.; Clerck,, Aran. Suec., pi, ii, tab. ix ; — 
Tegeneria civilis, Walck., Hist, des Aran., V, v ; — Aranea labyrinthica, L., Fab. ; 
Clerck, Aran., Suec, pi. ii, tab. viii. See the Tab. des Aran,, Walck. 
