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above with a silvery silken down ; its abdomen is flatted, with- 

 out spots, and festooned upon the edges. It is found in the 

 south of Europe and in Senegal. 



Epe'ira fiisca, Walck., Hist, des Aran. ii. 1. fem., is very 

 common in the cellars of the town of Angers. Its cocoon is 

 white, almost globular, fixed by a pedicle, and composed of 

 very fine threads, and as soft to the touch as wool. 



That of the Epe'ira fasciata, Walck., Hist, des Aran. iii. 1, 

 fem., is about an inch in length, resembles a small balloon, of 

 a grey colour, with some black longitudinal radii, and one of 

 the extremities is truncated, and closed by a flat and silky 

 opercle. The interior presents a very fine down, which 

 envelopes the eggs. This species establishes itself on the 

 banks of rivulets, and there spins a vertical web, not very 

 regular, at the centre of which it remains. It is very common 

 in the South of France. Its corslet is covered with a silken 

 and silvery down. Its abdomen is of a fine yellow, interrupted 

 at intervals by transverse lines, black, or of a blackish brown, 

 arched, and a little waved. 



M. Leon Dufour has given us, in the Annal. des Sc. 

 Phys. (tom. VI. pi. xcv. 5), a detailed description of this 

 species, of its habits, and was the first to make us acquainted 

 with the male. He has figured the sexual organ : it is in the 

 form of a twisted hair. Epe'ira cucurhitina, {Aran, cucurhi- 

 tina, Lin. ; A. seiioculata, Fab,\ Walck., Hist, des Aran. III. 

 iii., small ; abdomen ovoid, of a citron yellow, with black 

 points, a red spot at the anus. It spins between the stems 

 and the leaves of plants a horizontal web of no great extent. 



Epe'ira conica {Aran, conica, De G., Pall.), Walck. Hist. 

 Nat. des Aran. II. iii., remarkable for its abdomen, humped 

 in front, and terminated in the form of a cone, with the anus 

 placed at the centre of an elevation. 



It suspends to a thread the insect which it has sucked. 



We may place after this species that which M. Dufour 



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