424 CLASS ARACHNIDES, 



blage of these eyes represents a crescent, the convexity of 

 which is anterior and external. 



T. glohosus (Aranea glohosa, Fab.) A. irregularis, Panz., 

 Faun., Ins., Germ., Fasc, 74. tab. xx. fern. ; Walck., Faun., 

 Frang. araneid. vi. 4 ; nearly three lines in length, black, with 

 the abdomen globular, red or yellowish all around the back. 



TJiomisus cristatus, Clerck, Aran., Suecic. pi. 6, tab. vi. ; 

 size of the preceding ; body of a reddish grey, sometimes 

 brown, sprinkled with hairs, with small spines to the feet ; 

 the lateral eyes larger, and placed upon a tubercle ; a trans- 

 verse yellowish stripe on the front of the corslet, and others 

 forming a V of the same colour on the back ; the abdomen 

 rounded, with a yellowish band, having on each side three 

 divisions, in the form of teeth, on the middle of its back. 

 This species is common, and is usually found upon the 

 ground. 



T. citreus, Aranea citrea, Deg., Schoeff., Icon., Insec, tab. 

 xix. 13. ; of a citron yellowish, with the abdomen large, 

 broader behind, and having often on the back two red stripes 

 or spots. Found on flowers. 



A subgenus established by M. Walckenaer, under the name 

 of Store N A, but which is yet but imperfectly known, seems 

 proper to terminate this section, and conduct to the oxyopes, 

 which partake as much of the crab-spiders as of the wolf- 

 spiders. The storense have the jaws inclined upon the tongue, 

 which is almost as long as they are, and in the form of an 

 elongated triangle. The forceps are conical ; the two anterior 

 feet, and then the second, are the longest of all ; the tw^o fol- 

 lowing exceed the last ; the eyes are disposed on three trans- 

 verse lines, 2. 4. 2. ; the posterior two form, with the inter- 

 mediate two of the second line, a small square, and the an- 

 terior two are apart. 



Other spiders, whose eyes, always eight in number, are 



