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TAB. XX. 

 PHALANGIUM Diadema. 



Class 5. Insecta. Order y. Aptera. 



Gen. Char. P«//jz two, filiform. /<rmvf homy, second 

 joint armed with an acute cheliferous tooth. u4ji- 

 tennce none. Eijes two on the crown and two 

 at the sides. Feelers filiform. Legs eight. Ab- 

 domen generally rounded. 



Spec. Char. Thorax with an elevated spinous tu- 

 bercle on the back, and an eye on each side of it. 

 Palpi large, first joint spinous. 



Syn. Phalangium Diadema. Linn. Si/st. Nat. ed. \S. 

 V. 1. 2944. Fabr. Sp. Ins. i. 548. n.. 5. Mant. 

 List. i. 347. n. 5. Stroem. Act. Hafn. 9. 583. 

 t. (S. Mull. 7.ool. Dan. Prodr.Add. 280. ??. 192. 



Every thing created has some attraction for the inquiring 

 mind ; even the spider tribe, often most abhorred, and con- 

 sidered as noxious, has occasionally sonie beauties. 



The present animal, nearly allied to the spider, might be 

 shunned as hideous, and may perhaps for that reason have 

 been unexamined. Even the Diadem does not remove its 

 grim appearance, although it atlds greatly to its oddity. It 

 has however been recognised abroad, but not in Great 

 Britain, as far as we knov/, until my eldest son, James 

 Sowerby, found it on oak-trees in Hainaull forest in 1802, 

 and G. B. Sowerby in 1803 in South Wales, on dripping 

 rocks at a water-fall called Usgoed-Eynon-Garv. 



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