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Legs tolerably long, strong, and armed with 



spines. 

 Ordinary tarsal claws 3 ; strong, and opposed 



by others of a pectinated, or toothed form 



near the extremities of the tarsi. 

 Palpi of the females furnished with a terminal 



claw. 

 Spinners, 6, short, arranged in a compact 



group. 

 Spiders exceedingly varied both in size and 



general form, all (nearly) marked with 



bright colours and distinctive pattern. 

 Uloboeedes. — Eyes 8 ; the laterals on each side very widely 

 p. 284. separated from each other. 



Legs of the first pair usually much the longest 



and strongest, especially in the male sex. 

 Calamistra, in female only, on the metatarsi of 



the fourth pair. 

 Tarsal claws as in the Epeirides. 

 Supernumerary spinning organ in both sexes. 

 General form robust; cephalo -thorax short 



broad, pointed in front, with little or no 



lateral marginal constriction at the caput. 

 Abdomen large, often humped and greatly 



projecting over the thorax; colours and 



pattern sombre and subdued. 

 Spiders of moderate size. 



LATEKIGEADiE. 



Spiders with legs extended laterally, and moving freely back- 

 wards, as well as forwards and sideways, like a crab. 

 Thomisides. — Eyes 8 ; usually small, and forming a semi-circular 

 p. 287. figure, whose convexity is directed forwards. 



Legs extended laterally, those of the first and 

 second pairs generally much the longest and 

 strongest, and spinous. 



