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PLATE CCCCXXVIL 



FIG. I. L 

 ARANEA LIVIDA. 



APTERA; 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with Ihort horny jaws : lip rounded at the tip : feelers 

 two, incurved, jointed, and acutely pointed, thofe of the male 

 clavated and furnifhed with the fexual organs : antenna? none : eyes 

 eight or rarely fix : legs eight : papilla? for fpinning at the tip of the 

 abdomen or vent. 



Setlion eyes . .* °« * 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Aranea Livida: thorax fubtriangular : abdomen ovate; abo?e 

 brown, obfcurely dotted, and lineated with 

 blackiih : beneath teftaceous. 



A fpecimen of this remarkable fpecies of Aranea occurs in the 

 cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, with a memorandum relating the 

 following particulars of its capture. — " This fpider was taken out of 

 the water at Hornfey wood, October 4th, 1766, being in company 

 with Mr. Rice." 



vol. xii. N The 



