412 CLASS ARACHNIDA. 



divided into three groups ; one on each side, formed of three 

 eyes, disposed in a triangle, and the third in the middle, a 

 little anterior, composed of two other eyes, and on a transverse 

 line. 



Pholcus phalangista, (Araignee domestique a longues 

 pattes Geoff.) ph. phalangio'ides, Walck., Hist, des Aran, 

 fasc. 5, tab. x. Body long and narrow, of a very pale, or 

 livid yellow, pubescent ; abdomen almost cylindrical, very 

 soft, and marked above with blackish spots ; feet very long, 

 very fine, with a whitish ring at the extremity of the thighs 

 and legs. 



Common in houses, where it spins, at the angles of the 

 walls, a web composed of loose threads, with but little ad- 

 herence between them. The female agglutinates her eggs 

 into a round naked body-, which she carries between her 

 mandibles. 



M. Dufour has found a second species, Pholque a queue 

 (Annal. des Scienc. Physique, V. Ixxvi. 2.), in the clefts of 

 rocks at Moxente, in the kingdom of Valencia. Its abdomen 

 is terminated by a conical projection, thus forming a kind 

 of tail, like that of the conical epeira. Like the preceding, it 

 balances its body and feet. The palpi of the male have the 

 genital organ extremely complicated. 



The third section of the sedentary rectigrade spiders, that 

 of Oebiteles, has the external spinnerets almost conical, 

 but little projecting, convergent, and disposed like a rosette, 

 and the feet slender, as in the preceding. They differ from 

 those in the jaws, which are straight, and sensibly wider at 

 their extremity. 



The first pair of feet, and then the second, are always the 

 longest. The eyes are eight in number, and thus disposed : 

 four in the middle, forming a quadrilateral figure, and two oii 

 each side. 



They approach the Ineqititeles in the size, the softness, and 



