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ON THE ORDERS 



there is a nondescript genus of Spiders from India, of 

 which the abdomen is as minute, in proportion to the other 

 parts of the body, as in Pycnogonum ; so minute indeed 

 as to have occasioned one of these Arachnida to be mis^ 

 taken by a naturalist for a Coleopterous insect, of which 

 the head and elytra were represented by the abdomen and 

 antenna? of the Spider ! But before we proceed deeper 

 into the discussion of analogies, the annexed table of affi- 

 nities ought to be examined with care. 



