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 Genus LXXX. ARANEA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Eyes eight, convex. Mouth provided with two 

 jaws, each terminated by a simple, arched, 

 pointed, and moveable hook. Palpi two, 

 articulated ; the clubbed tips in the male di- 

 stinguish the sex. Abdomen joined to the 

 thorax by a short stalk, and terminated by 

 papillae, like nipples, through which the 

 thread is drawn. Legs eight. Tarsi com- 

 posed of two pieces. 



General Obse?*vations. 



This is a numerous and well-known genus, 

 the terror of many and the antipathy of all. It 

 is a proscribed race, which we think ourselves 

 entitled to destroy whenever we have an op- 

 portunity, fjrom feelings of disgust, rather than 

 from the operation of reason. This feeling 

 seems implanted as it were in our nature, from 

 which even the Naturalist is not wholly exempt ; 

 and it teuds, together with other causes, to 



