GREAT SURINAM SPIDER. 
Great Surinam Spider. It seems evident, how- 
ever, that the following account, which 
Capt, Stedman, in his Narrative of an Expe- 
dition to Surinam, has given of what he de- 
nominates the Bush Spider, may be referred to 
this insect, though the appearance be in some 
respects different. 
" In the evening," says Capt. Stedman, 
** a slave presented me with a Bush Spider- 
of such magnitude that, putting it into a case- 
bottle above eight inches high, it actually 
reached the surface with one of it's hideous 
claws, while the others were resting at the 
bottom. No creature can be more dreadfully 
ugly than this enormous Spider, which the 
people of Surinam erroneously call the Taran- 
tula. The body is divided into two: the pos- 
terior part oval, and the size of an Orlean 
Plum ; the fore-part square, with a figure some- 
what resembling a star upon it. This mon- 
ster has five pair of thick legs, with four 
joints in each; is entirely black, or dark 
brown; and covered over, legs and all* with 
thick and long black hair, like some Cater- 
pillars. Each leg is armed with a crooked 
yellow 
