60 THE ZEBRA SPIDER. 



in the middle, black at the sides. Mandibles yellow and sometimes 

 brown on their upper part. Abdomen in a lengthened yellow oval, 

 crossed by black transverse bands, which form so many segments ; the 

 first, the third, the fifth, and sixth segments often covered with silvery 

 hair ; the fourth black transversal line always more markedly waved 

 than the others. Belly black in the middle, with some yellow points, 

 and two yellow longitudinal lines on the sides. Feet long and robust, 

 ringed with black and with a reddish yellow, thighs of the front pair 

 of legs tinged with black. Feelers {palpi) yellow with black prongs 

 (piquan'ts). 



ic Pallas, de Villers, and Rossi have published excellent descriptions 

 of this beautiful species, and much more extended than that which we 

 have just given ; but for this reason have been more embarrassing on 

 account of the varieties. Rossi has published the most accurate figure 

 of the species. 



" I am somewhat inclined to refer to this species, the spider of 

 Lepechin, Tagebuch, t. ii. p. 316, tab. xvi. fig. 1, since he took it 

 in the same country as Pallas ; but the transverse bands are not waved 

 in Lepechin's figure, and appear differently disposed. His figure much 

 resembles that of the Aranea Luzon, of Petiver, Gazophyll, tab. 1. 

 no. 3, and indeed these two figures resemble also the Aranea fasciata 

 which Poiret has brought from Earbary, and which he has described 

 and figured in M. Rosier's Journal de Physique, t. ii. p. 1 14, pi. i. fig. 3. 

 The description which he gives of its cocoon, differs in every thing 

 from ours, and is conformable to the cocoon of the Aranea luzon of 

 Petiver. 



" I am led to believe that the species described by these authors 

 ought to be referred to the Aranea trifasciata of Yorskal, and which 

 he took at Cairo. I have seen this Epeira in the collection of M. de 

 Savigny who brought it from Egypt, and who ought to give a detailed 

 description of them. It differs specifically from ours by the transverse 

 bands being less waved, and by an abdomen less elongated. The letter 

 of Razoumowsky upon the spider of Poiret contains many errors 

 both of the author and printer ; but he has well described the eyes, 

 particularly the lateral ones. 



" This spider is common in all the south of Europe ; it was recently 

 found in the environs of Paris, where it is rare. MM. Hermann have 

 often taken it near Strasburg. Pallas has described it on the borders 

 of the river Jaik or Ural, to the north of the Caspian Sea. 



" This spider likes moist places, on the borders of streams as well as 



